TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferreira-Costa,Claudio
TI  - How Do Proper Names Really Work?: A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory 
T2  - Philosophical Analysis ,
SN  - 9783110997163
U1  - 100 
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Names
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Identität
KW  - Kripke, Saul A
KW  - Namengebung
KW  - language
KW  - meaning
KW  - proper names
KW  - reference
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; I The true history of descriptivism --; II Inconsistencies of Kripke’s quasi-referentialism --; III Metadescriptivism: Developing a theory --; IV Metadescriptivism: Answering counterexamples --; V Metadescriptivism: Identity statements --; VI Consequences for other terms --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - For fifty years the philosophy of language has been experiencing a stalemating conflict between the old descriptive and internalist orthodoxy (advocated by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Strawson, and Searle) and the new causal-referential and externalist orthodoxy (mainly endorsed by Kripke, Putnam, and Kaplan). Although the latter is dominant among specialists, the former retains a discomforting intuitive plausibility. The ultimate goal of this book is to overcome the stalemate by means of a non-naïve return to the old descriptivist-internalist orthodoxy. Concerning proper names, this means introducing second-order description-rules capable of systemizing descriptions of the proper name’s cluster to provide us with the right changeable conditions of satisfaction for its application. Such rules can explain how a proper name can become a rigid designator while remaining descriptive, disarming Kripke's and Donnellan’s main objections. In the last chapter, this new perspective is extended to indexicals in a discussion of David Kaplan’s and John Perry’s views, and of general terms, in a discussion of Hilary Putnam’s externalism
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110985740
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110985740
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ER  -