How Do Proper Names Really Work?: A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory

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Claudio Ferreira-Costa

How Do Proper Names Really Work?

A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory

Claudio Ferreira-Costa

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English

De Gruyter
04 October 2023

Philosophy of language; Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Science: general issues

Series: Philosophical Analysis

For fifty years the philosophy of language has been experiencing a stalemating conflict between the old descriptive and internalist orthodoxy (advocated by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Strawson, and Searle) and the new causal-referential and externalist orthodoxy (mainly endorsed by Kripke, Putnam, and Kaplan). Although the latter is dominant among specialists, the former retains a discomforting intuitive plausibility. The ultimate goal of this book is to overcome the stalemate by means of a non-naïve return to the old descriptivist-internalist orthodoxy. Concerning proper names, this means introducing second-order description-rules capable of systemizing descriptions of the proper name’s cluster to provide us with the right changeable conditions of satisfaction for its application. Such rules can explain how a proper name can become a rigid designator while remaining descriptive, disarming Kripke's and Donnellan’s main objections. In the last chapter, this new perspective is extended to indexicals in a discussion of David Kaplan’s and John Perry’s views, and of general terms, in a discussion of Hilary Putnam’s externalism.

By: Claudio Ferreira-Costa
Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 501g
ISBN: 9783110997163
ISBN 10: 3110997169
Series: Philosophical Analysis
Pages: 263
Publication Date: 04 October 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claudio Ferreira-Costa, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.