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Book SynopsisAttempts to defend the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality.
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Table of ContentsA Word about Notation ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 PART ONE: THE REVOLT AGAINST DESCRIPTIVISM 5 CHAPTER 1: The Traditional Descriptivist Picture 7 CHAPTER 2: Attack on the Traditional Picture Proper Names, Non-Descriptionality, and Rigid Designation 14 PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVIST RESISTANCE: THE ORIGINS OF AMBITIOUS TWO-DIMENSIONALISM 33 CHAPTER 3: Reasons for Resistance and the Strategy for Descriptivist Revival 35 CHAPTER 4: Roots of Two-Dimensionalism in Kaplan and Kripke 43 CHAPTER 5: Stalnaker's Two-Dimensionalist Model of Discourse 84 CHAPTER 6: The Early Two-Dimensionalist Semantics of Davies and Humberstone 106 PART THREE: AMBITIOUS TWO-DIMENSIONALISM 131 CHAPTER 7: Strong and Weak Two-Dimensionalism 133 CHAPTER 8: Jackson's Strong Two-Dimensionalist Program 149 CHAPTER 9: Chalmers's Two-Dimensionalist Defense of Zombies 194 CHAPTER 10: Critique of Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism 267 PART FOUR: THE WAY FORWARD 327 CHAPTER 11: Positive Nondescriptivism 329 Index 355
