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Rigid Designation

Dissertation, Queen's University at Kingston (Canada) (1999)

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  1. (1 other version)Are There Directly Referring Non-Rigid Designators?Marián Zouhar - 2011 - Prolegomena 10 (1):87-100.
    The paper is aimed to show that directly referring terms have to be rigid designators. Since directly referring expressions refer to something on the basis of semantic conventions alone and since the conventions are independent of possible worlds, there cannot be a directly referring expression with shifting reference across possible worlds. Although this claim seems to be indubitable and widely recognized, it was questioned recently. Drawing on D. Lewis’ ontology of counterparts, G. Martí has shown that a directly referring expression (...)
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