| Description |
1 online resource (345 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: Thought and Consciousness -- 1. On Being Open-Minded about Objectual Attitudes -- 2. A New Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness -- 3. Awareness of Universals -- 4. More Vorblick than Flashback -- PART II: Singular Thoughts and Displayed Thoughts -- 5. Reference and Form -- 6. Brentano's Legacy, Display Theory and Non-Existence -- 7. The Gallows -- 8. Individuating (and Typing) Mental Files -- PART III: Logic and Quantification -- 9. Definite Descriptions |
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10. Thoughts about 'Thinking about Things' -- 11. Special Quantification: Substitutional, Higher-Order, and Nominalization Approaches -- 12. Two Notions of Rigidity -- 13. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish -- PART IV: The Non-Existent, the Fictional, and the Exotic -- 14. Exotica -- 15. Judgements of Co-Identification -- 16. Something and the Things That Do Not Exist -- 17. Can We Dispense with Non-Existent Intentionalia? -- PART V: Vagueness -- 18. Two Kinds of Indeterminacy -- 19. Sainsbury's Scrambled Sorites -- 20. Vagueness Redux: Boundaryless Concepts, the Transition Problem and Luminosity -- Index |
| Summary |
The work of Mark Sainsbury has made a significant and challenging contribution to several central areas of philosophy. Thought: Its Origin and Reach will be of interest to professional philosophers and students working in philosophy of mind, language, epistemology, and metaphysics |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Thought and thinking.
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thinking.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Savile, Anthony
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| ISBN |
9781003855125 |
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1003855121 |
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