Fixing Reference

Zusatztext Dickie's Fixing Reference develops an original, ambitious proposal. Informationen zum Autor Imogen Dickie did her first degree in New Zealand and her graduate work at Oxford. She is currently a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Klappentext Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. She explains how relations to objects including perceptual attention, understanding of proper names, and grasp of descriptions do their aboutness-fixing and thought-enabling work. Zusammenfassung Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. She explains how relations to objects including perceptual attention, understanding of proper names, and grasp of descriptions do their aboutness-fixing and thought-enabling work. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: In which a precise version of the connection between aboutness and justification is derived from more basic principles 3: The mind has a basic need to represent things outside itself 4: Perceptual demonstratives 5: Proper names 6: The delicate question of reference by description 7: Descriptions and singular thought 8: Thought and consciousness Appendix: Key to notation References Index

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• Authors: Imogen Dickie, Imogen (University of Toronto) Dickie, Dickie Imogen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2015
• EAN: 9780198755616
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875561-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Context & Content; Context & Content; Context and Content
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge