Empty representations : reference and non-existence / edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Genoveva Martí.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García-Carpintero, Manuel, editor.

Martí, Genoveva, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Representation (Philosophy).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 359 pages)

Other Title:

Reference and non-existence

Reference and nonexistence

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contents of linguistic and mental representations may seem to be individuated by what they are about. But a problem arises with regard to representation of the non-existent - words and thoughts that are about things that don't exist. Fourteen new essays get to grips with this much-debated problem.

Contents:

Cover; Empty Representations; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Problem of Empty Representations; Part I. Foundational Matters: Singular Thoughts and their Attribution; 1. Transparency and the Context-Sensitivity of Attitude Reports; 2. Two Dogmas of Russellianism; 3. Intersubjective Intentional Identity; Part II. Accounts of Empty Representations; 4. Vulcan Might Have Existed, and Neptune Not: On the Semantics of Empty Names; 5. Content Relativism and the Problem of Empty Names; 6. Empty Singular Terms in the Mental File Framework

7. The Things we Do with Empty Names: Objectual Representations, Non-Veridical Language Games, and Truth Similitude8. A Practical Solution to the Problem of Empty Singular Thought; Part III. Existence and Non-Existence; 9. What is Existence?; 10. The Problem of Negative Existentials Inadvertently Solved; Part IV. Fiction; 11. Fictional Worlds and Fiction Operators; 12. Many, But Almost Holmes?; 13. Notions of Nothing; 14. Fictional Realism and Negative Existentials; Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-150258-8

0-19-105369-4

0-19-176104-4