Beyond Rigidity

The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity

By: Scott Soames

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Paperback | 12 August 2003

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In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions. He also demonstrates the irrelevance of rigid designation in understanding why theoretical identities containing such predicates are necessary, if true.

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"This excellent book is aptly titled, for in it Scott Soames systematically discusses and greatly extends the semantic views that Saul Kripke presented in Naming and Necessity. As Soames does this, he touches on a wide variety of semantic topics, all of which he treats with his characteristically high degree of clarity, depth, and precision. Anyone who is interested in the semantic issues raised by Naming and Necessity, or in more recent work on proper names, attitude ascriptions, and natural kind terms, will find this book indispensiable."--David Braun, University of Rochester, in Linguistics and Philosophy.

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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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