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In this second edition ofReference and Reflexivity, John Perry develops his reflexive-referential theory of indexicals, demonstratives, and proper names and further illuminates the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Responding to ideas from both the descriptivist and referentialist traditions, Perry reveals the essential truth behind these competing philosophiesa coherent and structured family of contents, from reflexive contents that place conditions on their actual utterance to fully incremental contents that place conditions only on the objects of referencethus reconciling the legitimate insights of both traditions.

Preface to the Second Edition	p. xi
Preface to the First Edition	p. xiv
Two Problems About Reference	p. 1
Mach and the shabby pedagogue	p. 1
Paradigms, arguments and problems	p. 4
Has semantics rested on a mistake?	p. 8
The reflexive-referential theory	p. 10
Network content	p. 14
Plan	p. 15
Reflexivity and th... MOREe Co-reference Problem
Contents and Propositions	p. 23
Introduction	p. 23
Meaning and content	p. 23
Common sense and official content	p. 25
The classificatory concept of content	p. 26
Conditions and propositions	p. 31
Varieties of designation	p. 36
Utterance and Context	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
The reflexive-referential theory	p. 42
Signs, tokens and utterances	p. 45
Context	p. 47
Semantic uses of context	p. 50
Content-supplemental uses of context	p. 53
Context and Cognitive Paths	p. 61
Introduction	p. 61
Information games	p. 62
cognitive paths	p. 64
Indexicals and contexts	p. 68
Stretch the dog	p. 73
Dthat	p. 75
Real, doxastic and fictional contexts	p. 76
Meanings and Contents	p. 82
Introduction	p. 82
Reichenbach, reflexivity and indexical content	p. 87
Indexical content and referential content	p. 90
Varieties of content	p. 91
Official content	p. 97
Stretching cognitive content	p. 101
Austin's two tubes	p. 105
Names and the Co-reference Problem	p. 114
Introduction	p. 114
The computer scientist	p. 114
Names and conventions	p. 116
Names and cognitive significance	p. 119
Reflexivity and names	p. 122
Paderewski	p. 128
Mach and the shabby pedagogue	p. 130
What is said?-I	p. 132
What is Referentialism?	p. 138
Introduction	p. 138
Dialectical reversal?	p. 139
Frege's argument	p. 140
On being a (psychologized) Fregean	p. 144
Kaplan and direct reference	p. 150
Kaplan's arguments for direct reference	p. 157
Conclusion	p. 159
Networks and the No-reference Problem
Empty Names, Blocks and Networks	p. 165
Introduction	p. 165
Conventions and Networks	p. 167
Networks: A Simple theory	p. 170
No-reference reconsidered	p. 181
Network Content and What is Said	p. 188
File Networks	p. 196
Notions, Files and Networks	p. 196
Intersubjective file networks	p. 200
Etiological Structure: origins and parents	p. 204
The flow of ideas: intersubjective networks of files	p. 215
Networks and information games	p. 221
Playing with names	p. 225
Contents and Attitudes	p. 235
Introduction	p. 235
The original theory	p. 239
Two-faced attitudes	p. 241
Saying	p. 243
Belief Revisited	p. 250
Types of notions and threads	p. 251
Mach and quasi-indication	p. 254
Pierre and disquotation	p. 255
Back to Austin	p. 258
Conclusion	p. 260
Externalism	p. 262
Introduction	p. 262
The Two Faces of Motivation	p. 264
Meshing Explanations	p. 278
Conclusion	p. 280
Narrow Enough Content	p. 282
Glossary	p. 289
Examples	p. 304
References	p. 314
Index	p. 325
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John Perry is the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University.

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