Definite Descriptions: A Reader
Language: English
Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998
- Softcover
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Presumed first trade paperback edition with no additional printings listed, has bumps with creasing to the corners of the covers and some pages, peeling starting to the spine ends and cover edges, rubbing to the covers, sun fading to the spine, smudging to the tail of the text block, and a previous owner's name and brief note to the first page. Overall, this is a Good+ reading copy.
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- Title
- Definite Descriptions: A Reader
- Author
- Ostertag, Gary (Ed.)
- Publisher
- The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Good+
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262650495
- ISBN 13
- 9780262650496
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy
Bertrand Russell's theory of definite descriptions sparked an ongoing debate concerning the proper logical and linguistic analysis of definite descriptions. While it is now widely acknowledged that, like the indexical expressions 'I', 'here', and 'now', definite descriptions in natural language are context-sensitive, there is significant disagreement as to the ultimate challenge this context-sensitivity poses to Russell's theory. This reader is intended both to introduce students to the philosophy of language via the theory of descriptions, and to provide scholars in analytic philosophy with ready access to some of the central contributions in this area. It includes classic works by Russell, Carnap, Strawson, Lambert, Donnellan, Grice, Peacocke, Kripke, Wettstein, Soames, Neale, and Schiffer.
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