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| dc.contributor.author | Dib, Nelly Hafez |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-13T07:10:21Z |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-13T07:10:21Z |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10938/7357 |
| dc.description | Thesis (M.A.)--American University of Beirut, Dept. of Philosophy, 2006.;"Advisor: Dr. Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy--Member of Committee: Dr. Hans Muller, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy--Member of Comm |
| dc.description | Bibliography: leaves 100-101. |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis begins with a discussion of Kripke's and Putnam's causal theories of reference, and their roots in the descriptivist accounts of Frege, Russell, and Searle. It then presents Kripke's and Putnam's essentialist theories, and objec tions by Salmo |
| dc.format.extent | viii, 101 leaves 30 cm. |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Theses, Dissertations, and Projects |
| dc.subject.classification | T:004835 AUBNO |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Essentialism (Philosophy) |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Reference (Philosophy) |
| dc.title | Essentialism and the causal theory of reference - by Nelly Hafez Dib |
| dc.type | Thesis |
| dc.contributor.department | American University of Beirut. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Department of Philosophy |
