Fran¿s Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought. Linguistic expressions inherit their reference from the files that we associate with them, which are classified according to their function, which is to store information derived through certain types of relation to objects.
Fran¿s Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought. Linguistic expressions inherit their reference from the files that we associate with them, which are classified according to their function, which is to store information derived through certain types of relation to objects.
François Recanati is the Director of Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris. He is the author of Perspectival Thought (OUP, 2007), Truth-Conditional Pragmatics (OUP, 2010), and many other publications in the philosophy of language and mind.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface Part I. Singular Thought and Acquaintance : Rejecting Descriptivism 1: Singularism vs Descriptivism 2: Can Descriptivism Account for Singularity? Part II. Introducing Files 3: Non-Descriptive Modes of Presentation as Mental Files 4: Mental Files and Identity Part III. The Indexical Model 5: Mental Indexicals 6: Stable Files 7: The Dynamics of Files Part IV. Mental Files and Coreference 8: The Circularity Objection [followed by Appendix] 9: Coreference De Jure: The Transitivity Objection Part V. Epistemic Transparency 10: Slow Switching 11: Transparency and its Limits Part VI. Beyond Acquaintance 12: Descriptive Names 13: Singular Thought without Acquaintance Part VII : Vicarious Files 14: Mental Files in Attitude Ascription 15: Indexed Files at Work Part VIII. The Communication of Singular Thoughts 16: Frege and the Sense of 'I' 17: Reference Through Mental Files: Indexicals and Definite Descriptions Part IX. Conclusion 18: The Mental File Framework and Its Competitors References Index
Preface Part I. Singular Thought and Acquaintance : Rejecting Descriptivism 1: Singularism vs Descriptivism 2: Can Descriptivism Account for Singularity? Part II. Introducing Files 3: Non-Descriptive Modes of Presentation as Mental Files 4: Mental Files and Identity Part III. The Indexical Model 5: Mental Indexicals 6: Stable Files 7: The Dynamics of Files Part IV. Mental Files and Coreference 8: The Circularity Objection [followed by Appendix] 9: Coreference De Jure: The Transitivity Objection Part V. Epistemic Transparency 10: Slow Switching 11: Transparency and its Limits Part VI. Beyond Acquaintance 12: Descriptive Names 13: Singular Thought without Acquaintance Part VII : Vicarious Files 14: Mental Files in Attitude Ascription 15: Indexed Files at Work Part VIII. The Communication of Singular Thoughts 16: Frege and the Sense of 'I' 17: Reference Through Mental Files: Indexicals and Definite Descriptions Part IX. Conclusion 18: The Mental File Framework and Its Competitors References Index
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