Reference and Representation in Thought and Language

María de Ponte is an assistant professor at the University of Seville. She has previously held positions at the University of the Basque Country and at Brown University. She works on the philosophy of language, logic, and time, and her work has been published in journals such as Logique et Analyse, Journal of Pragmatics, and Research and Language, as well as in a number of edited volumes.Kepa Korta is Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country and a researcher at the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI). He is the author, with John Perry, of the book Critical Pragmatics: An Inquiry into Reference and Communication (2011) and his work has appeared in Mind and Language, Synthèse, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and various edited collections.

This is a welcome addition to the ongoing debate on reference. Both philosophers of language and linguists contributed to the volume, and the topics of the papers vary considerably ... The book can be of interest to both graduate students and scholars that work in philosophy of language, linguistics, and philosophy of mind ... In conclusion, the volume is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on reference. Each paper makes a significant contribution, opening interesting and, in some cases, new perspectives on classical topics in philosophy of language and mind.

• 1: María de Ponte and Kepa Korta: Introduction 2: Genoveva Martí: Names, predicates, and the object-property distinction 3: Eros Corazza: Proper names: Gender, context sensitivity, and conversational implicatures 4: John Perry: Indexicals and undexicals 5: Kent Bach: Reference, intention, and context: Do demonstratives really refer? 6: Maite Ezcurdia: Semantic complexity 7: Carlo Penco: Donnellan's misdescriptions and loose talk 8: Yan Huang: 'Pre'-semantic pragmatic enrichment: the case of long-distance reflexivization 9: Istvan Kecskes: The interplay of recipient design and salience in shaping speaker's utterance 10: María de Ponte and Kepa Korta: New thoughts about old facts: On Prior's root canal 11: François Recanati: Cognitive dynamics: A new look at an old problem 12: Wayne A. Davis: The property theory and de se attitudes 13: Kenneth A. Taylor: Selfhood as self-representation