How should we analyse the meaning of proper names, indexicals, demonstratives and definite descriptions? What relation do such expressions stand to the objects they designate or to mental representations of those objects? George Powell casts new light on these and other questions by approaching them from within a cognitive framework.

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'[Powell']s project of deposing truth and placing mind instead at the center of meaning is an ambitious and challenging idea, and it would be very interesting to see its further applications' Piotr Stalmaszczyk - Philosophy in Review

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GEORGE POWELL is a post-doctoral researcher at University College London, UK. He has taught at a number of British universities, and has published papers on pragmatics, semantics and the philosophy of language. He currently lives in Montreal.

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Book Title: Language, Thought and Reference
Authors: George Powell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230274914
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22795-8Published: 31 March 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30984-9Published: 31 March 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27491-4Published: 31 March 2010
Series ISSN: 2946-2576
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2584
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 217
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Linguistics, general, Language and Literature, Semantics

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Theoretical Background

Proper Names

Indexicals

Definite Descriptions

Complex Demonstratives

Conclusion

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