The Informational Value of Names

In Language, Names, and Information. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 102–146 (2010)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This chapter contains sections titled: Where we are When truth at a world depends on more than how that world is A diagram to give the key idea A language where truth at a world is, by stipulation, a function of which world is actual On looking for examples of two–dimensional sentences in the English of the folk How should we approach questions like, How do we use the word “water”? and, How do we use the word “Gödel”? More on the evidential role of intuitions about possible cases What information do we impart with the word “water”–first pass With enemies like these, who needs friends?16 What information do we impart with the word “water”–second pass The issue about narrow content18 Proper names and information (I) Proper names and information (II) Coda.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,038

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

On not forgetting the epistemology of names.Frank Jackson - 2007 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 74 (1):239-250.
Description, Disagreement, and Fictional Names.Peter Alward - 2011 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 41 (3):423-448.
Empty Names and Reference.Anna Bjurman - 2003 - Dissertation, Lund University
Names of places.Katarzyna Kijania-Placek - 2021 - Semiotica 2021 (240):187-210.
Proper Names and Relational Modality.Peter Pagin & Kathrin Gluer - 2006 - Linguistics and Philosophy 29 (5):507 - 535.
The semantics of fictional names.Fred Adams, Gary Fuller & Robert Stecker - 1997 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 78 (2):128–148.
All the Superhero’s Names.Olga Poller - 2017 - Studia Semiotyczne—English Supplement 29:127-158.
A Unified Theory of Names.John Justice - 1998 - The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 32:41-47.
Are Names Ambiguous?Tim Kenyon - 2005 - ProtoSociology 21:148-159.
Names and Rigid Designation.Jason Stanley - 2017 - In Bob Hale, Crispin Wright & Alexander Miller (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Chichester, UK: Wiley. pp. 920–947.
An Argument for the Obstinate Rigidity of Proper Names.Marián Zouhar - 2019 - Grazer Philosophische Studien 96 (4):497-517.
All the Superhero's Names.Olga Poller - 2016 - Studia Semiotyczne 30 (2):11-44.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-06-15

Downloads
3 (#1,713,259)

6 months
2 (#1,201,619)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references