The origins of this work go all the way to my reading of Kripke's Naming and Necessity in
1993. It had left me with a feeling of dissatisfaction that lingered long enough to inspire my …

Proper names play an important role in our understanding of linguistic 'aboutness' or
reference. For instance, the name-bearer relation is a good candidate for the paradigm of …

I argue, in this thesis, that proper name reference is a wholly pragmatic phenomenon. The
reference of a proper name is neither constitutive of, nor determined by, the semantic …

The articles in this collection focus on philosophical approaches to proper names. The
issues discussed include abstract names, empty names, naming and name-using practices …

In this book, I attempted to provide a synthesis of the relevant literature on the theory of
proper names as they function in modem Western European languages, especially English …

Proper names are typically considered to be devices of individual reference. Since Frege
(1882), the debate has mainly concerned the proper semantic characteristics of this …

In my book Eigenname und Bedeutung (1996) I started from the observation that modern
theories of proper names fail to do justice to the specific and complex semantic nature of …

In a number of interrelated articles, I have presented some ideas about the nature of proper
names, and specifically about their meaning. A central concept of these papers has been …

Because names typically occur in bare, unmodified, singular form, philosophical debates
about the semantics of names have traditionally focused exclusively on examples such as …

The Millian view that the meaning of a proper name is simply its referent has long been
popular among philosophers of language. It might even be deemed the orthodox view …