Empty representations : reference and non-existence /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The problem of empty representation / Manuel Garcia-Carpintero
- Part 1. Foundational matters: singular thoughts and their attribution
- Transparency and the context-sensitivity of attitude reports / Cian Dorr
- Two dogmas of Russellianism / Robin Jeshion
- Intersubjective intentional identity / Peter Pagin
- Part 2. Accounts of emply representations
- Vulcan might have existed, and Neptune not: on the semantics of empty names / Kathrin Glüer-Pagin and Peter Pagin
- Content relativism and the problem of empty names / Frederick Kroon
- Empty singular terms in the mental file framework / Franc̦ois Recanat
- The things we do with empty names: objectual representations, non-veridical language games, and truth similitude / Kenneth A. Taylor
- A practical solution to the problem of empty singular thought / Imogen Dickie
- Part 3. Existence and non-existence
- What is existence? / Nathan Salmon
- The problem of negative existentials inadvertently solved / Greg Ray
- Part 4. Fiction
- Fictional worlds and fiction operators / Mark Sainsbury
- Many, but almost Holmes? / Brigg Wright
- Notions of nothing / Stacie Friend
- Fictional realism and negative existentials / Tatjana von Solodkoff.