Perspectival thought
Perspectival thought: a plea for (moderate) relativism
François Recanati
Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
ISBN: 0199230536
DDC: 149
LCC: BD221
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-299) and index.
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.
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