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Many take the description theory of reference for proper labels to be useless in the water. Unlike this view, Words, Titles, and Information defends a version of the description theory from a perspective on terms that recognizes words as a wonderful source of information about the nature of the world we reside in. Indeed, the booklet is really as much about the implications of this perspective for discussions of meaning and reference generally as it is for the particular topic of labels. Representation and information, two-dimensionalism about content, the role of possible worlds and focused worlds, the distinction between what is metaphysically possible and what is conceptually possible, and rigidity - all make their looks as required by the informational perspective on terms. Frank Jackson is browsing professor in Beliefs at Princeton School and supports a fractional visit as distinguished teacher in the Australian National School. Jackson is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and the author of several literature and documents on an array of issues in analytical philosophy.
