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Introducing a new and ambitious position in the field, Kit Fine's Semantic Relationism is a major contribution to the philosophy of language.

Written by one of today's most respected philosophers
Argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought
Proposes that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves
Forms part of the prestigious new Blackwell/Brown Lectures in Philosophy series, based on an ongoing series of lectures by today's leading philosophers

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Kit Fine argues for a fundamentally new approach to the study of representation in language and thought. His key idea is that there may be representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought that are not grounded in the intrinsic representational features of the expressions or elements themselves. This idea is shown to lead to solutions to many of the standard puzzles in the area - Frege's identity puzzle, Kripke's puzzle about belief, and Moore's paradox of analysis. It is also shown to lead to a more defensible form of direct reference theory - one that is immune to many of the objections that the Fregeans have levelled against it. Based upon the first Brown/Blackwell lecture series and the John Locke lectures, this ground-breaking work is essential reading for anyone interested in the general nature of representation.

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Title Semantic Relationism
Author Kit Fine
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 160
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date June 1, 2007
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781405108430 / 1405108436
Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
Dimensions 9.21 x 6.33 x 0.73 in (23.39 x 16.08 x 1.85 cm)
Category Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
Library of Congress subjects Semantics, Semantics (Philosophy)
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007003774
Dewey Decimal Code 401.43

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Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 249

About the author

Kit Fine is Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University, and specializes in Metaphysics, Logic, and Philosophy of Language. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies and is a former editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic. He is the author of Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers (2005), and the co-author of Worlds, Times and Selves and Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (Blackwell, 1985). He has also written papers in ancient philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and economic theory, in addition to the papers in his central fields of interest.

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