Meaning, Reference and Necessity
New Studies in Semantics

A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK.

Simon Blackburn (Edited by)

9780521113502, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 June 2009

224 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.29 kg

A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers, logicians and theoretical linguists, and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. The contributors to the volume have a common interest in these topics, insist on their continuing and fundamental importance, and offer here a distinctive and original contribution to them.

Introduction
1. The problem of necessary truth E. J. Craig
2. 'Alternative' in 'alternative logic' Susan Haack
3. Quantification, modality, and indirect speech Thomas Baldwin
4. Proper names, reference, and rigid designation Christopher Peacocke
5. Conversational implicatures Ralph C. S. Walker
6. The identity of propositions Simon Blackburn
Bibliographical index.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]