Language, Names, and Information is an important
contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost
scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description
theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a
version of the description theory from a perspective on language
that sees words as a wonderful source of information about the
nature of the world we live in.
* Challenges current pervasive view that the description theory
of reference for pr...
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Prologue.
Lecture One: The Debate over the Theory of Reference for
Proper Names.
Lecture Two: Understanding, Representation,
Information.
Lecture Three: Ir-content and ...
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Frank Jackson is Visiting Professor in Philosophy at Princeton University and holds a fractional appointment as Distinguished Professor at The Australian National U...