{"product_id":"how-do-proper-names-really-claudio-ferreira-costa-9783110997163","title":"How Do Proper Names Really Work?: A Metadescriptive Version of the Cluster Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor fifty years the philosophy of language has been experiencing a stalemating conflict between the old descriptive and internalist orthodoxy (advocated by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Strawson, and Searle) and the new causal-referential and externalist orthodoxy (mainly endorsed by Kripke, Putnam, and Kaplan). Although the latter is dominant among specialists, the former retains a discomforting intuitive plausibility. The ultimate goal of this book is to overcome the stalemate by means of a non-na?e return to the old descriptivist-internalist orthodoxy. Concerning proper names, this means introducing second-order description-rules capable of systemizing descriptions of the proper name's cluster to provide us with the right changeable conditions of satisfaction for its application. Such rules can explain how a proper name can become a rigid designator while remaining descriptive, disarming Kripke's and Donnellan's main objections. In the last chapter, this new perspective is extended to indexicals in a discussion of David Kaplan's and John Perry's views, and of general terms, in a discussion of Hilary Putnam's externalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claudio Ferreira-Costa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3110997169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783110997163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Claudio Ferreira-Costa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44790474440959,"sku":"9783110997163","price":120.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b928af0a-705d-487c-aab7-b71866e9ce3c.jpg?v=1707289047","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-do-proper-names-really-claudio-ferreira-costa-9783110997163","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}