Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays

by Howard Wettstein

Overview

A Stanford UniversityPress classic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804718660
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1991
Series:	Stanford Series in Philosophy
Edition description:	1
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Can What Is Asserted Be a Sentence?
2. Indexical Reference and Propositional Content
3. Proper Names and Propositional Opacity
4. Demonstrative Reference and Definite Descriptions
5. The Semantic Significance of the Referential-Attributive Distinction
6. Did the Greeks Really Worship Zeus?
7. How to Bridge the Gap Between Meaning and Reference
8. Frege-Russell Semantics?
9. Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake?
10. Cognitive Significance Without Cognitive Content
11. Turning the Tables on Frege, or How Is It That "Hesperus Is Hesperus" Is Trivial?
Notes
Index