Beyond Rigidity

The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

By: Scott Soames

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In his work, Naming and Necessity, Saul Kripke undermined descriptive analyses of names by showing that they are rigid designators. He thereby told us what their meanings are not, but not what they are. In Beyond Rigidity, Scott Soames fills this gap.
Using a new conception of how the meaning of a sentence relates to the information asserted and conveyed by utterances, Soames argues that the meaning of a linguistically simple name is its referent and that the meaning of a (linguistically complex) partially descriptive name is a compound that includes both a referent and a partial description. Though not, strictly speaking, rigid designators, partially descriptive names are nearly so in that they always designate the same object, when they designate anything at all.
Beyond Rigidity distills, modifies, and extends some of the most important ideas in the philosopby of language in the last thirty years. Its impact will be far-reaching.

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"In this admirable book, Scott Soames provides well defended answers to some of the most difficult and important qurstions in the philosophy of language, and he does so with characteristic thoroughness, clarity, and rigor."--Michael McKinsey, Canadian Journal of Philosophy "In this admirable book, Scott Soames provides well defended answers to some of the most difficult and important qurstions in the philosophy of language, and he does so with characteristic thoroughness, clarity, and rigor."--Michael McKinsey, Canadian Journal of Philosophy

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Semantics & Discourse Analysis Philosophy of Language Sociolinguistics Philosophy Philosophy & Logic Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge Metaphysics & Ontology

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The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity	p. 3
Rigid Designation and Its Lessons for the Semantic Contents of Proper Names	p. 18
The Meaning of Names	p. 55
Ambiguity and Indexicality	p. 96
Partially Descriptive Names	p. 110
The Problem Posed by Propositional Attitude Ascriptions	p. 131
The Case Against Linguistically Enhanced Propositions	p. 147
Millian Meaning and Pseudo-Fregean Attitudes	p. 204
What Is It for a General Term to Be a Rigid Designator?	p. 241
What Do Natural Kind Predicates Have in Common with Proper Names?	p. 264
Natural Kind Predicates, Mass Nouns, and Abstract Singular Terms	p. 289
Notes	p. 313
Index	p. 373
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