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to objections 14?
6 Offer your own criticisms of the causalhistorical picture.
7 Assess the KripkePutnam view that natural-kind terms rigidly desig-
nate scientifically characterized kinds.
8 Are you persuaded by Putnam's "Twin Earth" examples that meanings
"ain't in the head"?
Further reading
· Further representative papers on Direct Reference may be found in
Almog, Perry and Wettstein (1989); a survey and critique is offered in
Devitt (1989). See also Recanati (1993).
· Kvart (1993) also elaborates a version of the CausalHistorical Theory
of referring.
· Evans (1973) offers further objections to Kripke's picture, and an
interesting revision of it. Evans (1982) makes concessions to Kripke
but insists that the idea of a "name-using (social) practice" must be
introduced as a further element. McKinsey (1976, 1978) has moved
62 Reference and referring
further back toward the ancien régime. Further objections are made