Reference and Essence

Reference and Essence
Author: Nathan U. Salmon
Publisher: Studies in Analytic Philosophy
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

In this new edition of an important work in the philosophy of language, Nathan U Salmon, one of the leading proponents of what has come to be called the new or causal theory of reference, presents his latest thinking on this promising area of study.

On Sense and Reference

On Sense and Reference
Author: Gottlob Frege
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-04-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

In the philosophy of language, the difference between sense and reference was a concept of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in 1892. This idea, presented in this work, reflects the two ways he thought a singular term might have meaning.

On the Essence of Language

On the Essence of Language
Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2004-09-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780791462713

This important early Heidegger text sheds new light on his later focus on language.

Aristotle on Meaning and Essence

Aristotle on Meaning and Essence
Author: David Owain Maurice Charles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0198250703

This volume presents a study of Aristotle's views on meaning, essence, and necessity. It aims, through reading his texts, to reach a clear understanding of his claims and arguments, and to assess their truth and importance to philosophy.

Necessity, Essence, and Individuation

Necessity, Essence, and Individuation
Author: Alan Sidelle
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2019-05-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 150174626X

Alan Sidelle's Necessity, Essence, and Individuation is a sustained defense of empiricism—or, more generally, conventionalism—against recent attacks by realists. Sidelle focuses his attention on necessity a posteriori, a kind of necessity which contemporary realists have taken to support realism over empiricism. Turning the tables against the realists, Sidelle argues that if there are in fact truths necessary a posteriori, it is not realism, but rather empiricism which provides the best explanation for them.

Sense and Essence

Sense and Essence
Author: Birgit Meyer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2018-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785339419

Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts—the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"—the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide.