New Essays on Singular Thought

Herausgeber: Jeshion, Robin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ten leading philosophers present specially written essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and perception: the nature of our thought about the external world. The essays explore new directions for future research and will be an important resource for anyone working at the interface of semantics and mental representation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199567881
• ISBN-10: 0199567883
• Artikelnr.: 32459370

Autorenporträt

Robin Jeshion is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I The Structure of Singular Thought
* 1: Kent Bach: Getting a Thing Into a Thought
* 2: Nathan Salmon: Three Perspectives on Quantifying In
* 3: Kenneth Taylor: On Singularity
* II Conditions on Singular Thought
* 4: Robin Jeshion: Singular Thought: Acquaintance, Semantic
Instrumentalism, and Cognitivism
* 5: Francois Recanati: Singular Thought: In Defense of Acquaintance
* Demonstrative and Communication-Based Reference and Thought
* 6: John Campbell: Demonstrative Reference, the Relational View of
Experience, and the Proximality Principle
* 7: Imogen Dickie: We Are Acquainted With Ordinary Things
* 8: Arthur Sullivan: Millian Externalism
* IV Thinking of Nothing
* 9: Manuel Garcia-Carpintero: Fictional Singular Imaginings
* 10: Mark Sainsbury: Intentionality Without Exotica
* Index