
Mental Files
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- Cover
- Contents
- Part I. Singular Thought and Acquaintance: Rejecting Descriptivism
- 1. Singularism vs Descriptivism
- 2. Can Descriptivism Account for Singularity?
- Part II. Introducing Files
- 3. Non-Descriptive Modes of Presentation as Mental Files
- 4. Mental Files and Identity
- Part III. The Indexical Model
- 5. Mental Indexicals
- 6. Stable Files
- 7. The Dynamics of Files
- Part IV. Mental Files and Co-Reference
- 8. The Circularity Objection
- Appendix: Incremental Conversion and the Origin of Concepts
- 9. Co-reference De Jure: The Transitivity Objection
- Part V. Epistemic Transparency
- 10. Slow Switching
- 11. Transparency and its Limits
- Part VI. Beyond Acquaintance
- 12. Descriptive Names
- 13. Singular Thought without Acquaintance
- Part VII. Vicarious Files
- 14. Mental Files in Attitude Ascription
- 15. Indexed Files at Work
- Part VIII. The Communication of Singular Thoughts
- 16. Frege and the Sense of 'I'
- 17. Reference through Mental Files: Indexicals and Definite Descriptions
- Part IX. Conclusion
- 18. The Mental File Framework and its Competitors
- References
- Index
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