An Inferentialist Account of Proper Names
DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvii1.03 In this paper, I defend an inferentialist account of proper names. After a review of how the account works in the framework of Robert Brandom’s inferentialism, I focus on two objections. The first one, from a Russellian view, is that the inferentialist...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvii1.03
In this paper, I defend an inferentialist account of proper names. After a review of how the account works in the framework of Robert Brandom’s inferentialism, I focus on two objections. The first one, from a Russellian view, is that the inferentialist account will eventually collapse into a Russellian description theory of proper names. The second, from a Millian view, is that the account fails due to the fact that proper names in fact have no conceptual content, as they are merely meaningless tags. I conclude by recapitulating the advantages of the inferentialist account of proper names.
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| spelling | doaj-art-d7e51e98c91e4d49930957a9a76b1b5c2025-08-20T02:31:07ZengPolskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne / The Polish Semiotic SocietyStudia Semiotyczne0137-66082544-073X2024-12-01371An Inferentialist Account of Proper NamesRusong Huang0University of Florida, Adjunct Faculty of Philosophy DOI: https://doi.org/10.26333/sts.xxxvii1.03 In this paper, I defend an inferentialist account of proper names. After a review of how the account works in the framework of Robert Brandom’s inferentialism, I focus on two objections. The first one, from a Russellian view, is that the inferentialist account will eventually collapse into a Russellian description theory of proper names. The second, from a Millian view, is that the account fails due to the fact that proper names in fact have no conceptual content, as they are merely meaningless tags. I conclude by recapitulating the advantages of the inferentialist account of proper names. http://studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/index.php/Studiasemiotyczne/article/view/258inferentialismsubstitutionproper namesanaphorasemanticsRobert Brandom |
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