The Theory of Descriptions Russell and the Philosophy of Language

The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops and extends the theory as a contribution to natural language semantics while also arguing for a reassessment of the important of linguistic in

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10.1057/9780230343191 - The Theory of Descriptions, Graham Stevens

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History of Analytic Philosophy Series Editor: Michael Beaney

Stewart Candlish THE RUSSELL/BRADLEY DISPUTE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR TWENTIETHCENTURY PHILOSOPHY Annalisa Coliva MOORE AND WITTGENSTEIN Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense Sandra Lapointe BOLZANO’S THEORETICAL PHILOSOPHY An Introduction Omar W. Nasim BERTRAND RUSSELL AND THE EDWARDIAN PHILOSOPHERS Constructing the World Graham Stevens THE THEORY OF DESCRIPTIONS Russell and the Philosophy of Language Nuno Venturinha (editor) WITTGENSTEIN AFTER HIS NACHLASS Pierre Wagner (editor) CARNAP’S LOGICAL SYNTAX OF LANGUAGE Forthcoming: Andrew Arana and Carlos Alvarez (editors) ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS Rosalind Carey RUSSELL ON MEANING The Emergence of Scientific Philosophy from the 1920s to the 1940s Giusseppina D’Oro REASONS AND CAUSES Causalism and Non-Causalism in the Philosophy of Action George Duke DUMMETT ON ABSTRACT OBJECTS Sébastien Gandon RUSSELL’S UNKNOWN LOGICISM A Study in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics

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Titles include:

Anssi Korhonen LOGIC AS UNIVERSAL SCIENCE Russell’s Early Logicism and Its Philosophical Context

Douglas Patterson ALFRED TARSKI Philosophy of Language and Logic Consuelo Preti THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF ETHICS The Early Philosophical Development of G.E. Moore Sandra Lapointe (translator) Franz Prihonsky THE NEW ANTI-KANT Erich Reck (editor) THE HISTORIC TURN IN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY Maria van der Schaar G.F. STOUT: ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGIN OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY Pierre Wagner (editor) CARNAP’S IDEAL OF EXPLICATION AND NATURALISM

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Gregory Landini FREGE’S NOTATIONS What They Are and What They Mean

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