Definite Descriptions
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780199660193
Subjects: Frege, gottlob, 1848-1925; Linguistics; Philosophy
Description: Paul Elbourne defends the Fregean view that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, and offers a new and radical account of the semantics of pronouns. He draws on a wide range of work, from Frege, Peano, and Russell to the latest findings in linguistics philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.