Fixing Reference
(Sprache: Englisch)
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. Extant discussions of this topic tread a weary path through descriptivist proposals, causalist...
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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. Extant discussions of this topic tread a weary path through descriptivist proposals, causalist alternatives, and attempts to combine the most attractive elements of each. The account developed here is a new beginning. It starts with two basic principles. The first connects aboutness and truth: a belief is about the object upon whose properties its truth or falsity depends. The second connects truth and justification: justification is truth conducive; in general and allowing exceptions, a subject whose beliefs are justified will be unlucky if they are not true, and not merely lucky if they are. These principles--one connecting aboutness and truth; the other truth and justification--combine to yield a third principle connecting aboutness and justification: a body of beliefs is about the object upon which its associated means of justification converges; the object whose properties a subject justifying beliefs in this way will be unlucky to get wrong and not merely luck to get right. The first part of the book proves a precise version of this principle. Its remaining chapters use the principle to explain how the relations to objects that enable us to think about them--perceptual attention; understanding of proper names; grasp of descriptions--do their aboutness-fixing and thought-enabling work. The book includes discussions of the nature of singular thought and the relation between thought and consciousness.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Fixing Reference “
- 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
Autoren-Porträt von Imogen Dickie
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.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Imogen Dickie
- 2015, 344 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 23,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198755619
- ISBN-13: 9780198755616
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.12.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Dickie's Fixing Reference develops an original, ambitious proposal. Una Stognic, Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
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