Sensations, Thoughts, Language: Essays in Honor of Brian Loar

ISBN-13: 9781032337906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 364 str.

Arthur Sullivan

Opis

This book is a timely reflection on Brian Loar’s enduring influence on the philosophy of mind and language. This volume features essays on Loar’s work in philosophy of language, especially the relations between semantics and psychology, on content in the philosophy of mind, and on the metaphysics of intentionality and consciousness.

Spis treści

Introduction

Arthur Sullivan

Part I: Philosophy of Language, and Relations between Semantics and Psychology

1. Intention Recognition as the Mechanism of Human Communication

Daniel Harris

2. Loar, Donnellan, and Frege on Descriptions

John Perry

3. Modes of Presentation in Attitude Reports

Francois Recanati

4. Expression-Meaning and Vagueness

Stephen Schiffer

5. Limning the External Dimensions of Meaning

Arthur Sullivan

Part II: On Content in the Philosophy of Mind

6. Relational vs. Adverbial Conceptions of Phenomenal Intentionality

David Bourget

7. Phenomenal Intentionality and the Perception/Cognition Divide

Uriah Kriegel

8. Cognitive Phenomenology, Sensory Phenomenology, and Rationality

Michelle Montague

9. Loar’s Compromised Internalism

David Pitt

10. Loar on Lemons: the Particularity of Perception and Singular Perceptual Content

Mark Sainsbury

11. The Sense of ‘Looks’

Michael Tye

Part III: The Metaphysics of Intentionality and Consciousness

12. Hard, Harder, Hardest

Katalin Balog

13. "Phenomenal States" and the Scope of the Phenomenal Concepts Strategy

Janet Levin

14. Phenomenal Concepts and the First-Person Perspective

Joseph Levine

15. The Non-Primacy of Subjective Intentionality

Georges Rey

O autorze

Arthur Sullivan is an Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He works primarily in the Philosophy of Language, and in overlapping parts of Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Cognitive Science. He is the author of Reference and Structure (Routledge, 2013), The Constitutive A Priori (2018), and dozens of published articles.