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Meaning and Reference A. W. Moore (Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, St Hugh's College, Oxford)

Meaning and Reference By A. W. Moore (Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, St Hugh's College, Oxford)

Summary

Part of the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series, this volume presents a selection of the major writings in the debate on the nature of meaning and reference which started 100 years ago with Frege's essay On Sense and Reference. This subject lies at the heart of the philosophy of language.

Meaning and Reference Summary

Meaning and Reference by A. W. Moore (Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, St Hugh's College, Oxford)

The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a wide variety of souces, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the question which which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.

Meaning and Reference Reviews

`Since the 1960's, the Oxford Readings in Philosophy have provided an essential service to all teachers of the subject. ... in a colourful and attractive new format, but the essential aim of the series remains unchanged: to introduce students, as gently as is realistically possible, to the best work in a given area. ... the volume on time is very wide-ranging Cogito:Winter 1993
`Excellent for my second year undergraduate course - right on the topics - and making central papers easily available.' Martin Bell, University of York
`This is a valuable collection of articles: the quality is outstanding, and the choice is excellent, for courses on the philosophy of language.' David Bell, University of Sheffield
`This is a really excellent book.' Hugh Bredin, Queen's University, Belfast
`It is excellent for teaching the subject in a British University' Dr G. McCulloch, University of Nottingham
`A very useful anthology of seminal essays in this field.' Stephen P. Thornton, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
`This is an excellent selection of articles.' R. Fellows, University of Bradford
`Excellent, nicely priced volume with many of the classic texts.' D.E. Cooper, University of Durham
`This is an excellent collection of articles.' Maria Baghramian, University College Dublin
`An extremely useful collection on meaning and reference containing classic papers students ought to read.' Dr C. Macdonald, University of Manchester
`One of the most useful texts in the series Oxford Readings in Philosophy. It has the most important of the relevant essays.' B.B. Rundle, Trinity College, Oxford

Table of Contents

On sense and reference, Gottlob Frege; letter to Jourdain, Gottlob Frege; descriptions, Bertrand Russell; on referring, P.F. Strawson; mind and verbal dispositions, W.V. Quine; truth and meaning, Donald Davidson; on the sense and reference of a proper name, John McDowell; what does the appeal to use do for the theory of meaning, Michael Dummett; meaning and reference, Hilary Putnam; identity and necessity, Saul Kripke; Putnam's doctrine of natural kind words and Frege's doctrines of sense, reference and extension - can they cohere?, David Wiggins; the causal theory of names, Gareth Evans; Frege's distinction between sense and reference, Michael Dummett; Wittgenstein on following a rule, John McDowell.

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GOR002399654
9780198751250
0198751257
Meaning and Reference by A. W. Moore (Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, St Hugh's College, Oxford)
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Oxford University Press
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