Reference and Description
Scott Soames
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Reference and Description
by Scott Soames
Published
November 29, 2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pages
384
ISBN-13
9780691121000
ISBN-10
0691121001
Description
"In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptivist revolution has coalesced around a technical development called two dimensional modal logic that seeks to reinterpret the Kripkean categories of the necessary aposteriori and the contingent apriori in ways that drain them of their far-reaching philosophical significance."--Jacket.
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This edition of Reference and Description has approximately 384 pages. Please note, this is an estimate and the exact page count can vary between hardcover, paperback, and e-book versions.
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For most readers, Reference and Description typically takes between 8h 0m and 5h 20m to complete. This is based on the book's length of approximately 96,000 words and common reading speeds.
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Who is the author of Reference and Description?
Reference and Description was written by Scott Soames.
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The publication date for this specific edition is November 29, 2004. The original work may have been published on a different date.