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Original essays on reference and referring by leading scholars that combine breadth of coverage with thematic unity. These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference and referring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay that casts current trends in reference and referring in terms of an ongoing dialogue between Fregean and Russellian approaches, the book addresses specific topics, balancing breadth of coverage with thematic unity.The contributors, all leading or emerging scholars, address trenchant neo-Fregean challenges to the direct reference position; consider what positive claims can be made about the mechanism of reference; address the role of a theory of reference within broader theoretical context; and investigate other kinds of linguistic expressions used in referring activities that may themselves be referring expressions.The topical unity and accessibility of the essays, the stage-setting introductory essay, and the comprehensive index combine to make Reference and Referring, along with the other books in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, appropriate for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.

Reference (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Referring, Theory of --- Theory of referring --- PHILOSOPHY/General --- LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General --- Reference (Philosophy) - Congresses --- Semantics (Philosophy) - Congresses

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Saul Kripke's 'Locke Lectures' were delivered in Oxford in 1973. Delivered in Kripke's usual extemporaneous style, for years the lectures have only been available as a transcription that has been informally exchanged among philosophers. This volume, which publishes the lectures, follows up on some of the themes on language that Kripke started to explore in his most famous work 'Naming and Necessity'.

Référence (philosophie) --- Ontologie --- Reference (Philosophy) --- Ontology --- Reference (Philosophy). --- Ontology. --- Philosophy of language --- Metaphysics --- Référence (Philosophie) --- Ontologie. --- Being --- Philosophy --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Referring, Theory of --- Theory of referring

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For a number of centuries Indian philosophers of all persuasions were convinced that there was a particularly close connection between language and reality, also, or even primarily, between sentences and the situations they describe. This shared conviction was responsible for a perceived problem. Different currents in Indian philosophy can be understood as different attempts to solve this problem; these include the satkāryavāda of the Sāṃkhyas, the anekāntavāda of the Jainas, the śūnyavāda of the Buddhists, and many others. By bringing to light the shared problem underlying almost all schools of Indian philosophy, this book shows the interconnectedness of currents that had hitherto been thought of as quite independent of each other.

Language and languages --- Philosophy, Indic --- Reality --- Reference (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Truth --- Nominalism --- Pluralism --- Pragmatism --- Referring, Theory of --- Theory of referring --- History.

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The volume presents the material of the first Oxford-Budapest Conference on Truth, Reference and Realism held at CEU in 2005. The problem addressed by the conference, famously formulated by Paul Benacerraf in a paper on Mathematical Truth, was how to understand truth in the semantics of discourses about abstract domains whose objects and properties cannot be observed by sense perception. The papers of the volume focus on this semantic issue in four major fields: logic, mathematics, ethics and the metaphysics of properties in general. Beyond marking an important event, the collected papers are also substantial contributions to the above topic, from the most distinguished authors in these areas.

Realism --- Reference (Philosophy) --- Truth --- Empiricism --- Philosophy --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Conceptualism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Materialism --- Nominalism --- Positivism --- Rationalism --- Referring, Theory of --- Theory of referring --- Conference, Ethics, Logics, Philosophy.

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Paul John Eakin's earlier work Fictions in Autobiography is a key text in autobiography studies. In it he proposed that the self that finds expression in autobiography is in fundamental ways a kind of fictive construct, a fiction articulated in a fiction. In this new book Eakin turns his attention to what he sees as the defining assumption of autobiography: that the story of the self does refer to a world of biographical and historical fact. Here he shows that people write autobiography not in some private realm of the autonomous self but rather in strenuous engagement with the pressures that life in culture entails. In so demonstrating, he offers fresh readings of autobiographies by Roland Barthes, Nathalie Sarraute, William Maxwell, Henry James, Ronald Fraser, Richard Rodriguez, Henry Adams, Patricia Hampl, John Updike, James McConkey, and Lillian Hellman. In the introduction Eakin makes a case for reopening the file on reference in autobiography, and in the first chapter he establishes the complexity of the referential aesthetic of the genre, the intricate interplay of fact and fiction in such texts. In subsequent chapters he explores some of the major contexts of reference in autobiography: the biographical, the social and cultural, the historical, and finally, underlying all the rest, the somatic and temporal dimensions of the lived experience of identity. In his discussion of contemporary theories of the self, Eakin draws especially on cultural anthropology and developmental psychology.

American prose literature --- Authors, American --- Authors, French --- Autobiography. --- French prose literature --- Reference (Philosophy). --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- 82-94 --- 82-94 Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie --- Reference (Philosophy) --- Autobiographies --- Autobiography --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Referring, Theory of --- Theory of referring --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Biography as a literary form --- Philosophy --- French authors --- American authors --- Biography&delete&