Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto)

Fixing Reference

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Produktbeschreibung

Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. She explains how relations to objects including perceptual attention, understanding of proper names, and grasp of descriptions do their aboutness-fixing and thought-enabling work.

Produktdetails

• Context & Content
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 554mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198801795
• ISBN-10: 0198801793
• Artikelnr.: 49206415

Autorenporträt

Imogen Dickie did her first degree in New Zealand and her graduate work at Oxford. She is currently a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: In which a precise version of the connection between aboutness and justification is derived from more basic principles
3: The mind has a basic need to represent things outside itself
4: Perceptual demonstratives
5: Proper names
6: The delicate question of reference by description
7: Descriptions and singular thought
8: Thought and consciousness
Appendix: Key to notation
References
Index