Download or read book Reference and the Rational Mind written by Kenneth Allen Taylor and published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study. This book was released on 2003 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Referentialism has underappreciated consequences for our understanding of the ways in which mind, language, and world relate to one another. In exploring these consequences, this book defends a version of referentialism about names, demonstratives, and indexicals, in a manner appropriate for scholars and students in philosophy or the cognitive sciences. To demonstrate his view, Kenneth A. Taylor offers original and provocative accounts of a wide variety of semantic, pragmatic, and psychological phenomena, such as empty names, propositional attitude contexts, the nature of concepts, and the ultimate source and nature of normativity.