III - How proper names refer

Imogen Dickie

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9264.2011.00298.x

III - How proper names refer

Imogen Dickie

Philosophy

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This paper develops a new account of reference-fixing for proper names. The account is built around an intuitive claim about reference fixing: the claim that I am a participant in a practice of using α to refer to o only if my uses of α are constrained by the representationally relevant ways it is possible for o to behave. §I raises examples that suggest that a right account of how proper names refer should incorporate this claim. §II provides such an account.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	43-78
Number of pages	36
Journal	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
Volume	111
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2011.00298.x
Publication status	Published - 30 Aug 2011

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Proper names
Reference
Causail theory

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