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Mental Files (Hardcover, New)
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Mental Files (Hardcover, New)
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Francois Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of
understanding reference in language and thought. He aims to recast
the 'nondescriptivist' approach to reference that has dominated the
philosophy of language and mind in the late twentieth century.
According to Recanati, we refer through mental files, which play
the role of so-called 'modes of presentation'. The reference of
linguistic expressions is inherited from that of the files we
associate with them. 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. Files are like
singular terms in the language of thought, with a nondescriptivist
semantics. In contrast to other philosophers, Recanati offers an
indexical model according to which files are typed by their
function, which is to store information derived through certain
types of relation to objects in the environment. The type of the
file corresponds to the type of contextual relation it exploits.
Even detached files or 'encyclopedia entries' are based on
epistemically rewarding relations to their referent, on Recanati's
account. Among the topics discussed in this wide-ranging book are:
acquaintance relations and singular thought; cognitive
significance; the vehicle/content distinction; the nature of
indexical concepts; co-reference de jure and judgments of identity;
cognitive dynamics; recognitional and perceptual concepts; confused
thought and the transparency requirement on modes of presentation;
descriptive names and 'acquaintanceless' singular thought; the
communication of indexical thoughts; two-dimensional defences of
Descriptivism; the Generality Constraint; attitude ascriptions and
the 'vicarious' use of mental files; first-person thinking;
token-reflexivity in language and thought.
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