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Reference and Essence

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In this new edition of an important work in the philosophy of language, Nathan U Salmon, one of the leading proponents of what has come to be called the new or causal theory of reference, presents his latest thinking on this promising area of study.
Nathan Salmon is professor of philosophy at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is also the author of Frege's Puzzle, numerous articles in analytic metaphysics and the philosophy of language, and the coeditor of Propositions and Attitudes.
""Superior scholarship...reconstructs and clarifies recent arguments in an exemplary way. The thesis of the book (the underivability of essentialism from the theory of direct reference) is an exciting one, and forcefully argued. An invaluable work."
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