Reference and the Rational Mind

Referentialism has underappreciated consequences for our understanding of the way in which mind, language, and world relate one to another. In exploring these consequences, this book defends a version of referentialism about names, demonstratives, and indexicals in a manner appropriate for scholars and students in philosophy or the cognitive sciences.

To demonstrate his view, Taylor offers original and provocative accounts of a wide variety of semantic, pragmatic, and psychological phenomena such as empty names, propositional attitude contexts, the nature of concepts, and the ultimate source and nature of normativity.

Kenneth A. Taylor is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University.

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