Thought: Its Origin and Reach
Essays for Mark Sainsbury
1st Edition
Published on 29. March 2024
Book
Hardback
334 pages
978-1-032-19530-8 (ISBN)
Description
The work of Mark Sainsbury has made a significant and challenging contribution to several central areas of philosophy, especially philosophy of language and logic. He has made significant contributions to puzzles concerning the nature of thought and language and pioneered research in the philosophical theory known as fictionalism.
In this outstanding volume, 20 contributors engage with Sainsbury's work but also go beyond it, exploring fundamental problems in the philosophy of language, mind, and logic. Topics covered include propositional thought, intentionality, the mind-body problem, singular thoughts, the individuation of concepts, nominalisation, logical form, non-existent objects, and vagueness.
Thought: Its Origin and Reach will be of interest to professional philosophers and students working in philosophy of mind, language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
In this outstanding volume, 20 contributors engage with Sainsbury's work but also go beyond it, exploring fundamental problems in the philosophy of language, mind, and logic. Topics covered include propositional thought, intentionality, the mind-body problem, singular thoughts, the individuation of concepts, nominalisation, logical form, non-existent objects, and vagueness.
Thought: Its Origin and Reach will be of interest to professional philosophers and students working in philosophy of mind, language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 2 s/w Zeichnungen
2 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
684 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-19530-8 (9781032195308)
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Persons
Alex Grzankowski is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College and the Associate Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. His research is in the Philosophy of Mind and Language with a focus on intentionality and representation. He is an editor of Nonpropositional Intentionality (2018).
Anthony Savile is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Anthony Savile is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Content
Introduction Alex Grzankowski and Anthony Savile Part 1: Thought and Consciousness 1. Awareness of Universals Alex Grzankowski 2. More Vorblick than Flashback Anthony Savile 3. On Being Open Minded about Objectual Attitudes Mark Textor 4. A New Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness Michael Tye Part 2: Singular Thoughts and Displayed Thoughts 5. Reference and Form Rachel Goodman 6. Brentano's Legacy, Display Theory and Non-Existence Max Koelbel 7. The Gallows Graham Priest 8. Individuating (and typing) Mental Files Francois Recanati Part 3: Logic and Quantification 9. Definite Descriptions Graeme Forbes 10. Thoughts about Thinking about Things Hans Kamp 11. Special Quantification: Substitutional, Higher-Order and Nominalization Approaches Fredrike Moltmann 12. Two Notions of Rigidity Ian Rumfitt 13. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish David Sosa Part 4: The Non-Existent, the Fictional, and the Exotic 14. Exotica Tim Crane 15. Judgements of Co-Identification Stacie Friend 16. Something and the Things that do not Exist Dolf Rami 17. Can We Dispense with Non-Existent Intentionalia? Alberto Voltolini Part 5: Vagueness 18. Two Kinds of Indeterminacy Dorothy Edgington 19. Sainsbury's Scrambled Sorites Dianna Raffman 20. Vagueness Redux: Boundaryless Concepts, the Transition Problem and Luminosity Crispin Wright. Index