Sense, Reference, and Philosophy
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2004
241 pages
978-0-19-534371-7 (ISBN)
Description
Sense, Reference, and Philosophy develops the far-reaching consequences for philosophy of adopting non-Fregean intensionalism, showing that long-standing problems in the philosophy of language, and indeed other areas, that appeared intractable can now be solved. Katz proceeds to examine some of those problems in this new light, including the problem of names, natural kind terms, the Liar Paradox, the distinction between logical and extra-logical vocabulary, and the Raven paradox. In each case, a non-Fregean intentionalism provides a philosophically more satisfying solution.
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Jerrold J. Katz
Sense, Reference, and Philosophy
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Sense
- 1.1. Two definitions of sense
- 1.2. Problems with the Fregean definition of sense
- 1.3. The autonomous theory of sense
- 2. Reference
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. Analyticity: logical and mereological
- 2.3. The mediation thesis
- 2.4. A conception of the theory of type-reference
- 3. Philosophy
- 3.1. The benefits of thinness
- 3.2. Indirect reference does not make sense
- 3.3. Thinness of senses as the source of fine-grainedness
- 3.4. The paradox of analysis
- 3.5. Frege's context principle and the linguistic turn
- 3.6. Propositions and the Epimenidean dilemma
- 3.7. A speculation about the essence of natural language
- 3.8. Presupposition
- 3.9. The aboutness and confirmation dilemmas
- 3.10. Names
- 3.11. The natural kind term dilemma and the epistemology of semantics
- 3.12. Fregean sense in the philosophy of mathematics
- 3.13. The irony of indeterminacy
- 3.14. Wittgenstein's family resemblance criticism
- 3.15. Vagueness
- 3.16. The dilemma about color incompatibility
- 3.17. Analyticity, epistemology, and skepticism
- 3.18. Existence
- 3.19. The paradox of non-being
- 3.20. Regimentation revisited
- 3.21. The dilemma of the logical and the extralogical
- 3.22. What was the problem with linguistic philosophy?
- 3.23. A balance sheet
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
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- Index of Subjects
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