24.2789, Books: Definite Descriptions: Elbourne

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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:04:33
From: Annie Leyman [annie.leyman at oup.com]
Subject: Definite Descriptions: Elbourne

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Title: Definite Descriptions 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Semantics and Pragmatics  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199660209.do 

Author: Paul D. Elbourne

Hardback: ISBN:  9780199660193 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 65.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780199660209 Pages: 272 Price: U.K. £ 24.99

Abstract:

This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of
France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently
simple conclusion flies in the face of philosophical orthodoxy, which
incorporates Bertrand Russell's theory that definite descriptions are devices
of quantification. Paul Elbourne presents the first fully-argued defence of
the Fregean view. He builds an explicit fragment of English using a version of
situation semantics. He uses intrinsic aspects of his system to account for
the presupposition projection behaviour of definite descriptions, a range of
modal properties, and the problem of incompleteness. At the same time, he
draws on an unusually wide range of linguistic and philosophical literature,
from early work by Frege, Peano, and Russell to the latest findings in
linguistics, philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics. His penultimate
chapter addresses the semantics of pronouns and offers a new and more radical
version of his earlier thesis that they too are Fregean definite descriptions.

Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics

Written In: English  (eng)

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