The debate over the semantics of proper names has, of late, heated up, focusing on the
relative merits of referentialism and predicativism. Referentialists maintain that the semantic …

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 …

Although the view that sees proper names as referential singular terms is widely considered
orthodoxy, there is a growing popularity to the view that proper names are predicates. This is …

The view that proper names are uniformly predicates ('predicativism') has recently gained
prominence. I review linguistic evidence against it. Overall, the (cross‐) linguistic evidence …

Tyler Burge (1973) argues for what he calls the 'modified predicate view'of proper names–
the view that proper names are predicates in their own right. The view contrasts with the …

This paper is about how to interpret and evaluate purported evidence for predicativism about
proper names. I aim to point out some underappreciated thorny issues and to offer both …

There is an extremely plausible principle about proper names that many philosophers up to
the present have either assumed or argued for. I will call it the'principle of identifying …

Proper names are usually given a special treatment in formal logic. Quine proposed a
treatment of proper names in terms of such special predicates as' socratizes' …

There is overwhelming evidence that proper names must have senses or connotations that
somehow contain contingent information about their referents. There is also overwhelming …

The Modal Argument In Naming and Necessity,'Saul Kripke gives three types of argument
against semantic theories that analyze the meaning, or reference, of proper names in terms …