Description:
Geirsson's account of the nature of propositions and the cognitive value of names focuses on subjects organizing information in webs; a name can then access and elicit information from a given web. Geirsson proceeds to extend the account of information to non-referring names, but they have long provided a serious challenge to the causal reference theorist.
Review Quotes:
"Heimir Geirsson's book is a well written presentation, motivation, and defense of a systematic semantic and metaphysical theory of propositions and propositional attitudes. The last century of work on this particular topic is vast and thorny. However, Geirsson does a nice job of guiding his reader through the most important issues and views. Moreover, Geirsson's own unique view is interesting and may accommodate many of our seemingly incompatible intuitions."- Joshua Spencer, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA
"...I think that the book is more than worth reading by interested researchers, as it provides a very clear overview of current debates in the philosophy of language...." - Gregory Bochner, Università di Bologna, Italy/Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews