Indexicality, Transparency, and Mental Files
Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 58 (4):353-367 (2015)
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Francois Recanati’s Mental Files presents a picture of the mind on which mental representations are indexical and transparent. I dispute this picture: there is no clear case for regarding mental representations as indexical, and there are counterexamples to transparencyAuthor's Profile
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10.1080/0020174x.2014.883752
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The Metaphysics of Mental Files.Simon Prosser - 2020 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (3):657-676.
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