| Descriptions Revised Edition Contributor(s): Neale, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262640317 ISBN-13: 9780262640312 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition |
| Dewey: 121.68 |
| Series: Bradford Book |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.88" W x 8.96" (0.91 lbs) 302 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1905, Bertrand Russell argued that certain logical puzzles are solved if definite descriptions are treated as quantified expressions rather than referential expression, as Frege had thought. Since then, philosophers and, more recently, linguists have debated the relevance of this paradigm to the study of the semantics of natural language. In "Descriptions, "Stephen Neale provides the first sustained defense and extension of Russell's theory, placing it in the center of a theory of singular and nonsingular descriptive phrases and anaphoric pronouns. Stephen Neale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. |
Contributor Bio(s): Neale, Stephen: - Stephen Neale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. |