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Author(s): Tim Crane
ISBN(s): 9780199682744, 0199682747
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.03 MB
Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199682747
ISBN 13: 9780199682744
Author: Tim Crane

The Objects of Thought addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. Tim Crane argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pervasive feature of our thought about the world, and that we will not adequately understand thought’s representational power (‘intentionality’) unless we have understood the representation of the non-existent. Intentionality is conceived by Crane in terms of the direction of the mind upon an object of thought, or an intentional object. Intentional objects are what we think about. Some intentional objects exist and some do not. Non-existence poses a problem because there seem to be truths about non-existent intentional objects, but truths are answerable to reality, and reality contains only what exists. The proposed solution is to accept that there are some genuine truths about non-existent intentional objects, but to hold that they must be reductively explained in terms of truths about what does exist. The Objects of Thought offers both an original account of the nature of intentionality and a solution to the problem of thought about the non-existent.

The Objects of Thought 1st Table of contents:

Part I. Objects
1. The Problem of Non-Existence
1.1 ‘About’
1.2 Relational conceptions of intentionality
1.3 Non-existent objects
1.4 Truths about the non-existent
1.5 Existence, being, and reality
1.6 Conclusion and prospectus

2. Existence and Quantification
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The formalization of claims about existence and non-existence
2.3 ‘Exists’ as a predicate
2.4 Quantification in natural language
2.5 How to quantify over non-existents
2.6 Existential sentences: ‘there is’/‘there are’
2.7 Quantification, ontological commitment, and ‘believing in’
2.8 Conclusion: the irrelevance of quantification

3. The Nature of Existence and Non-Existence
3.1 The problem posed by non-existents
3.2 Truth about the non-existent: the logical approach
3.3 Truth about the non-existent: the metaphysical approach
3.4 Properties and relations
3.5 Negative existentials
3.6 Do fictional characters exist?
3.7 Fundamentality and existence
3.8 Conclusion to Part I

Part II. Thought
4. The Structure of Intentionality
4.1 Introduction: non-existence and intentionality
4.2 Varieties of intentional object
4.3 Varieties of intentional content
4.4 Varieties of intentional mode
4.5 Propositionalism
4.6 Existing objects of thought
4.7 Conclusion: representation as basic

5. Reductionism and Psychologism
5.1 Introduction: truths about the non-existent and their explanation
5.2 The idea of reduction
5.3 Reductionism and the propositional attitudes
5.4 The reduction of indeterminate intentional objects
5.5 The reduction of non-existent intentional objects
5.6 Conclusion: varieties of reduction

6. Thinking about Specific Things
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Specific thought, singular terms, and singular thought
6.3 Names and thought
6.4 Acquaintance and existence-dependence
6.5 De Re thought
6.6 Psychology and semantics again
6.7 Specific thoughts: a psychologistic account
6.8 No identity without an entity

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