In a series of recent papers, Dolf Rami has articulated a "use-sensitive" view of proper names, providing compelling explanations for the most significant phenomena uncovered in contemporary research in philosophy and semantics: rigidity, predicative uses, fictive uses, cognitive significance, reference-fixing. This book helpfully articulates Rami's proposal into a unified whole that will have to be taken seriously into consideration by future research on this fascinating topic.

Manuel García-Carpintero, Professor of Philosophy, University of Barcelona, Spain

Taking into consideration a variety of original desiderata, Rami casts a novel light on the debate on proper names and enriches it with original and thought-provoking insights and arguments. The outcome is a theory that no future student of proper names may afford to ignore.

Stefano Predelli, Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, UK