Thought: Its Origin and Reach

The work of Mark Sainsbury has made a significant and challenging contribution to several central areas of philosophy. Thought: Its Origin and Reach will be of interest to professional philosophers and students working in philosophy of mind, language, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Autorentext

Alex Grzankowski is a Senior Lecturer 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 was Honorary Secretary and Editor of the Aristotelian Society (1978-82), its Monographs Editor (1984-6), and a member of the Editorial Board of Mind since 1992. He was Visiting Associate Professor at Chapel Hill, Northern Carolina (1971), guest lecturer at Cambridge (1986) and Professor at the Palacky University in Olomouc, Czechoslovakia (1991).

Inhalt

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 François 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