Language, names, and information
By: Frank Jackson.
Series: The Blackwell/Brown lectures in philosophy -- 3
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405161589
Subjects: Discourse analysis; Psycholinguistics; Consciousness; Linguistics -- Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Lecture one: the debate over the theory of reference for proper names; title: Lecture two: Understanding, representation, information; title: Lecture three: ir-content and the set of worlds where a sentence is true; title: Lecture four: spaceism; title: Lecture five: the informational value of names.