{"product_id":"reference-and-description-scott-soames-9780691130996","title":"Reference and Description: The Case Against Two-Dimensionalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptivist revolution has coalesced around a technical development called two-dimensional modal logic that seeks to reinterpret the Kripkean categories of the necessary aposteriori and the contingent apriori in ways that drain them of their far-reaching philosophical significance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Arguing against this reinterpretation, Soames shows how the descriptivist revival has been aided by puzzles and problems ushered in by the anti-descriptivist revolution, as well as by certain errors and missteps in the anti-descriptivist classics themselves. \u003ci\u003eReference and Description\u003c\/i\u003e sorts through all this, assesses and consolidates the genuine legacy of Kripke and Kaplan, and launches a thorough and devastating critique of the two-dimensionalist revival of descriptivism. Through it all, Soames attempts to provide the outlines of a lasting, nondescriptivist perspective on meaning, and a nonconceptualist understanding of modality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott Soames\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 069113099X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691130996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/22\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.91d","brand":"Scott Soames","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058182615295,"sku":"9780691130996","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_59284b9d-4a53-4544-a9b9-7c4e851b7ef0.jpg?v=1685051116","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reference-and-description-scott-soames-9780691130996","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}