Contributing to the debate between referentialist and predicativist accounts of the semantics
of proper names, this paper partly endorses a recent trend to reject unitary accounts of their …

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 …

This paper argues for a version of metalinguistic descriptivism, the Mill-Frege view,
comparing it to a currently popular alternative, predicativism. The Mill-Frege view combines …

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 …

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 …

ABSTRACT I argue, in this thesis, that predicativism about proper names is best construed
with a pragmatic component. The semantic content of a proper name constitutes an …

The goal of my dissertation is to propose and defend a unified account of the semantic
content of proper names that can address all the following six problems facing various …

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 …

Two basic answers have been given to the question whether proper names have meaning,
the negative by Mill and later developed by Kripke and the affirmative by Frege and later …

This paper takes issue with the predicativist's identification of proper names and common
count nouns. Although Predicativism emerges precisely to account for certain syntactic facts …