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Author: John Hawthorne (Magdalen College, Oxford) ,
David Manley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.570kg
ISBN: 9780199693672
ISBN 10: 0199693676
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 29 March 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
[an] excellent book ...exemplifies today's philosophy of language at its best. Tim Crane, Times Literary Supplement
All in all, The Reference Book is one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of language of the past few years. Acquaintance theorists will have to engage with the criticisms of their views offered in the first part of the book. The unified account of noun phrases defended in the second part will be a central contestant in the debate over the semantics of noun phrases. And the wealth of examples discussed throughout will provide an invaluable source for semanticists and philosophers of language. There is no doubt in my mind that The Reference Book is to become a standard reference for future work on singular thought and the semantics of noun phrases. * Luca Incurvati, Analysis * ...a wonderful book. The authors' writing style is lively...readable, and clear, and their very careful consideration of all sides of every issue should leave readers with a whole new appreciation of the complexity of those issues, and a sense that many of their automatic assumptions about the functioning of NPs in English (and most likely other languages as well) need to be revised. * Barbara Abbott, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * [an] excellent book ...exemplifies today's philosophy of language at its best. * Tim Crane, Times Literary Supplement *
...a wonderful book. The authors' writing style is lively...readable, and clear, and their very careful consideration of all sides of every issue should leave readers with a whole new appreciation of the complexity of those issues, and a sense that many of their automatic assumptions about the functioning of NPs in English (and most likely other languages as well) need to be revised. Barbara Abbott, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews [an] excellent book ...exemplifies today's philosophy of language at its best. Tim Crane, Times Literary Supplement
Author Information
John Hawthorne is Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at the University of Oxford, having previously been Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His books include Knowledge and Lotteries, Metaphysical Essays, and Relativism and Monadic Truth. David Manley is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His papers have appeared in such journals as Mind, The Journal of Philosophy, Noûs, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
