Cognitive Hunger: Remarks on Imogen Dickie's Fixing Reference

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 95 (3):738-744 (2017)
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The main focus of my comments is the role played in Dickie's view by the idea that "the mind has a need to represent things outside itself". But there are also some remarks about her (very interesting) suggestion that descriptive names can sometimes fail to refer to the object that satisfies the associated description.

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