Francois Recanati

Mental Files

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Produktbeschreibung

François 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• New
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199659982
• ISBN-10: 0199659982
• Artikelnr.: 36079970

Autorenporträt

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