REFERENCE THEORIES AND THE RELEVANCE OF DESCRIPTIONS

Abstract

Abstract Mario Gómez-Torrente (2019) is a fundamental contribution to the issue of reference and especially of reference fixing. In this article I will focus on some questions addressed in it, especially on the relationships between some components of Kripke’s, Putnam’s and Gómez-Torrente’s theories of reference fixing as well as on the relevance of descriptions for those theories; I will then make some observations about Gómez-Torrente’s view of the reference-fixing conventions.

Keywords

• Reference
• Reference-fixing
• Natural kind noun
• Proper name
• Description