{"product_id":"9781575863092","title":"Reference and Reflexivity","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing his recently expanded \u003ci\u003eThe Problem of the Essential Indexical and Other Essays,\u003c\/i\u003e John Perry develops a reflexive-referential' account of indexicals, demonstratives and proper names. On these issues the philosophy of language in the twentieth century was shaped by two competing traditions, descriptivist and referentialist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOddly, the classic referentialist texts of the 1970s by Kripke, Donnellan, Kaplan and others were seemingly refuted almost a century earlier by co-reference and no-reference problems raised by Russell and Frege. Perry's theory, borrowing ideas from both traditions as well as from Burks and Reichenbach, diagnoses the problems as stemming from a fixation on a certain kind of content, coined referential or fully incremental.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferentialist tradition is portrayed as holding that indexicals contribute content that involves individuals without identifying conditions on them; descriptivist tradition is portrayed as holding that referential content does not explain all of the identifying conditions conveyed by names and indexicals. Perry reveals a coherent and structured family of contents — from reflexive contents that place conditions on their actual utterance to fully incremental contents that place conditions only on the objects of reference — reconciling the legitimate insights of both traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Center for the Study of Language and Inf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030831382768,"sku":"9781575863092","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781575863092_p0.jpg?v=1769845929","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781575863092","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}