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Russell's insistence on incorporating his principle of acquaintance (the principle that a logically proper name can only be understood by one acquainted with its referent) into his theory of reference ties this thesis to his notorious sense-date epistemology and this has distracted most commentators from an examination of his semantic theory for indexical expressions. Green is to be highly commended for resisting the distraction and remaining focused on assessing the semantic theory...Green's book performs a valuable service by exposing this inadequacy of the all-too-common interpretation of Russell as a philosopher opposed to the philosophical study of natural language. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2009

Mention - Chronicle of Higher Education, March 7, 2008 The nature of Green's project means that...his intended audience does not consist solely of philosophers and linguists but also embraces literary theorists...the book's main thesis is clear and persuasive, making a valuable contribution to Russell scholarship. - Graham Stevens, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, Summer 2008 -- Graham Stevens Russell's insistence on incorporating his principle of acquaintance (the principle that a logically proper name can only be understood by one acquainted with its referent) into his theory of reference ties this thesis to his notorious sense-date epistemology and this has distracted most commentators from an examination of his semantic theory for indexical expressions. Green is to be highly commended for resisting the distraction and remaining focused on assessing the semantic theory...Green's book performs a valuable service by exposing this inadequacy of the all-too-common interpretation of Russell as a philosopher opposed to the philosophical study of natural language. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2009

The nature of Green's project means that...his intended audience does not consist solely of philosophers and linguists but also embraces literary theorists...the book's main thesis is clear and persuasive, making a valuable contribution to Russell scholarship. - Graham Stevens, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, Summer 2008

Mention - Chronicle of Higher Education, March 7, 2008 Russell's insistence on incorporating his principle of acquaintance (the principle that a logically proper name can only be understood by one acquainted with its referent) into his theory of reference ties this thesis to his notorious sense-date epistemology and this has distracted most commentators from an examination of his semantic theory for indexical expressions. Green is to be highly commended for resisting the distraction and remaining focused on assessing the semantic theory...Green's book performs a valuable service by exposing this inadequacy of the all-too-common interpretation of Russell as a philosopher opposed to the philosophical study of natural language. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2009 The nature of Green's project means that...his intended audience does not consist solely of philosophers and linguists but also embraces literary theorists...the book's main thesis is clear and persuasive, making a valuable contribution to Russell scholarship. - Graham Stevens, Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, Summer 2008--Sanford Lakoff

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Keith Green is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English at Sheffield Hallam University. His previous publications include Critical Theory and Practice (with Jill LeBihan, Routledge, 1995).

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