Oxford University Press (2012)
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Over the past fifty years the philosophy of language and mind has been dominated by a nondescriptivist approach to content and reference. This book attempts to recast and systematize that approach by offering an indexical model in terms of mental files. According to Recanati, we refer through mental files, the function of which is to store information derived through certain types of contextual relation the subject bears to objects in his or her environment. The reference of a file is determined relationally, not satisfactionally, so a file is not to be equated to the body of (mis-)information it contains. Mental files are the mental equivalent of singular terms, and the reference of linguistic expressions is inherited from that of the files we associate with them. On this approach, mental files, the vehicles of singular thought, do all the work of so-called 'modes of presentation' in Fregean and neo-Russellian theories.
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Keywords | Thought and thinking Reference (Philosophy Reference (Linguistics Language and languages Philosophy Philosophy of mind |
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Call number | P325.5.R44.R384 2012 |
ISBN(s) | 9780199659982 0199659982 9780199659999 0199659990 |
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