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Thinking about Things (Hardcover)
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Thinking about Things (Hardcover)
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In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to
Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the
mythical flying horse, Pegasus. How is this possible? How can we
think about things that do not exist, like unicorns and Pegasus?
They are not there to be thought about, yet we think about them
just as easily as we think about things that do exist. Thinking
About Things addresses these and related questions, taking as its
framework a representational theory of mind. It explains how mental
states are attributed, what their aboutness consists in, whether or
not they are relational, and whether any of them involve
nonexistent things. The explanation centers on a new theory of what
is involved in attributing attitudes like thinking, hoping, and
wanting. These attributions are intensional: some of them seem to
involve nonexistent things, and they typically have semantic and
logical peculiarities, like the fact that one cannot always
substitute one expression for another that refers to the same thing
without affecting truth. Mark Sainsburys new theory, display
theory, explains these anomalies. For example, substituting
coreferring expressions does not always preserve truth because the
correctness of an attribution depends on what concepts it displays,
not on what the concepts refer to. And a concept that refers to
nothing may be used in an accurate display of what someone is
thinking.
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