The Reference of Natural Kind Terms

by Luis Fernández Moreno

Overview

This book deals with the main promoters of the causal and descriptivist reference theories on natural kind terms. It alleges that the ostensive reference fixing and reference borrowing theories should be descriptive-causal and adduces that the relation of kind-identity depends on the views on kind-identity and thus involves descriptive elements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631661987
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	12/22/2016
Series:	Studies in Philosophy of Language and Linguistics , #5
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Luis Fernández Moreno is a Professor of Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. His research is concerned predominantly with the philosophy of language, philosophical logic and the philosophy of science.

Table of Contents

Reference – Reference fixing – Reference borrowing – Natural kind – Natural kind term – Substance term – Causal theory – Descriptivist theory – Essentialism – Kind-identity – Microstructuralism – J. Locke – J.S. Mill – G. Frege – B. Russell – S. Kripke – H. Putnam – J. Searle – P.F. Strawson – F. Jackson – M. Devitt