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Perspectival thought : a plea for (moderate) relativism / François Recanati.
LIBRA BD221 .R425 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Récanati, François, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relativity.
- Relationism.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Moderate relativism
- The framework
- The distribution of content
- Radical vs. moderate relativism
- Two levels of content
- Branch points for moderate relativism
- The debate over temporalism (1) : do we need temporal propositions?
- Modal vs. extensional treatments of tense
- What is at stake?
- Modal and temporal innocence
- Temporal operators and temporal propositions in an extensional framework
- The debate over temporalism (2) : can we believe temporal propositions?
- An epistemic argument against temporalism
- Rebutting Richard's argument
- Relativistic disagreement
- Relativization and indexicality
- Index, context, and content
- The two-stage picture : Lewis vs. Kaplan and Stalnaker
- Rescuing the two-stage picture
- Content, character, and cognitive significance
- Experience and subjectivity
- Content and mode
- Duality and the fallacy of misplaced information
- The content of perceptual judgements
- Episodic memory
- Immunity to error through misidentification
- Implicit self-reference
- Weak and strong immunity
- Quasi-perception and quasi-memory
- Reflexive states
- Relativization and reflexivity
- The (alleged) reflexivity of de se thoughts
- Reflexivity : internal or external?
- What is wrong with reflexivism
- The first person point of view
- De se thoughts and subjectivity
- Memory and the imagination
- Imagination and the self
- Imagination, empathy, and the quasi-de se
- Egocentricity and beyond
- Unarticulated constituents in the lekton?
- The context-dependence of the lekton : how far can we go?
- Unarticulatedness and the 'concerning' relation
- Three (alleged) arguments for the externality principle
- Invariance
- Self-relative thoughts
- The problem of the essential indexical
- Perry against relativized propositions
- Context-relativity
- Implicit and explicit de se thoughts
- Shiftability
- The generalized reflexive constraint
- Parametric invariance and m-shiftability
- Free shiftability
- The anaphoric mode : a Bühlerian perspective.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199230532
- 0199230536
- 9780199230549
- 0199230544
- OCLC:
- 123797251
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