Unspeakable names

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10809758
AutoresEliot Michaelson (0000-0002-2181-5423, King's College London, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume201
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2023-02-13
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSynthese (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11229-023-04038-0
OpenAlexW4320485611
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas35

There are some names which cannot be spoken and others which cannot be written, at least on certain very natural ways of conceiving of them. Interestingly, this observation proves to be in tension with a wide range of views about what names are. Prima facie , this looks like a problem for predicativists. Ultima facie , it turns out to be equally problematic for Millians. For either sort of theorist, resolving this tension requires embracing a revisionary account of the metaphysics of names. Revisionary Millianism, I argue, offers some important advantages over its predicativist competitor

Epistemology · Information retrieval · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Prima facie · Range (aeronautics) · sort · Computer Science · Engineering · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science