Mind, Language and Subjectivity: Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought

ISBN-13: 9780815371922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 260 str.

Nicholas Georgalis

Opis

This monograph further develops Georgalis' important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language. His theory defends the importance of thought-tokens and minimal content and their many-to-one relation to linguistic meaning.

 

Recenzje

'As mentioned at the beginning of this review, there is an increasing number of philosophers who reject externalism. Georgalis's framework stands out as a bold and original alternative. The insistence that we need to take the first-person perspective seriously is powerfully motivated.' - Joe Y.F. Lau, The University of Hong Kong, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Spis treści

1. Minimal Content and Intentionality  2. More on Minimal Content and Related Issues  3. Thinking Differently about Thought and Language  4. The Superiority of the New Theory to Frege’s  5. Kripke’s Puzzle about Belief Solved  6. Use, Idiolect, and Statement Made  7. Speaker’s Referent  8. Speaker’s Referent and the Referential/Attributive Distinction  9. Proper Names  10. Solutions to Classic Problems  11. Securing Determinate Meaning—Part I: Against Kripkenstein  12. Securing Determinate Meaning—Part II: Against Quine

O autorze

Nicholas Georgalis is Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at East Carolina University. His publications include: The Primacy of the Subjective: Foundations for a Unified Theory of Mind and Language, "Representation and the First-Person Perspective" in Synthese, "The Fiction of Phenomenal Intentionality" in Consciousness and Emotion, and "Rethinking Burge’s Thought Experiment" in Synthese.