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New Essays on Singular Thought presents ten new, specially written essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and perception: the nature of our thought about the external world. Is our thought about objects in the world always descriptive, mediated by our conceptions of those objects? Or is some of our thought somehow more direct, singular, associated more intimately with our perceptual, linguistic, and socially mediated relations to them? Leading experts in the field contributing to this volume make the case for the singularity of thought and debate a broad spectrum of issues it raises, including the structure of singular thought, the role of acquaintance in perception- and communication-based reference, the semantics of fictional and mythical terms, and the merits of epistemic, cognitive, and linguistic conditions on singular thought. Their essays explore new directions for future research and will be an important resource for anyone working at the interface of semantics and mental representation.

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Author:   Robin Jeshion (University of California, Riverside)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9780199567881

ISBN 10:   0199567883
Pages:   338
Publication Date:   27 May 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Robin Jeshion: Introduction I The Structure of Singular Thought 1: Kent Bach: Getting a Thing Into a Thought 2: Nathan Salmon: Three Perspectives on Quantifying In 3: Kenneth Taylor: On Singularity II Conditions on Singular Thought 4: Robin Jeshion: Singular Thought: Acquaintance, Semantic Instrumentalism, and Cognitivism 5: Francois Recanati: Singular Thought: In Defense of Acquaintance Demonstrative and Communication-Based Reference and Thought 6: John Campbell: Demonstrative Reference, the Relational View of Experience, and the Proximality Principle 7: Imogen Dickie: We Are Acquainted With Ordinary Things 8: Arthur Sullivan: Millian Externalism IV Thinking of Nothing 9: Manuel Garcia-Carpintero: Fictional Singular Imaginings 10: Mark Sainsbury: Intentionality Without Exotica Index

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the editor deserves thanks for drawing together these thought-provoking papers and making it easier to see some of the profitable areas for future work on singular thought. Jose Luis Bermudez, The Philosophical Quarterly

the editor deserves thanks for drawing together these thought-provoking papers and making it easier to see some of the profitable areas for future work on singular thought. * Jose Luis Bermudez, The Philosophical Quarterly *

Author Information

Robin Jeshion is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside.

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