1st Edition
Thought: Its Origin and Reach Essays for Mark Sainsbury
The work of Mark Sainsbury has made a significant and challenging contribution to several central areas of philosophy, especially philosophy of language and logic. He has made significant contributions to puzzles concerning the nature of thought and language and pioneered research in the philosophical theory known as fictionalism.
In this outstanding volume, 20 contributors engage with Sainsbury’s work but also go beyond it, exploring fundamental problems in the philosophy of language, mind, and logic. Topics covered include propositional thought, intentionality, the mind-body problem, singular thoughts, the individuation of concepts, nominalisation, logical form, non-existent objects, and vagueness.
Thought: Its Origin and Reach will be of interest to professional philosophers and students working in philosophy of mind, language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Introduction Alex Grzankowski and Anthony Savile
Part I: Thought and Consciousness
1. On Being Open Minded about Objectual Attitudes Mark Textor
2. A New Solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness Michael Tye
3. Awareness of Universals Alex Grzankowski
4. More Vorblick than Flashback Anthony Savile
Part II: Singular Thoughts and Displayed Thoughts
5. Reference and Form Rachel Goodman
6. Brentano’s Legacy, Display Theory and Non-Existence Max Koelbel
7. The Gallows Graham Priest
8. Individuating (and Typing) Mental Files François Recanati
Part III: Logic and Quantification
9. Definite Descriptions Graeme Forbes
10. Thoughts about 'Thinking about Things' Hans Kamp
11. Special Quantification: Substitutional, Higher-Order and Nominalization Approaches Fredrike Moltmann
12. Two Notions of Rigidity Ian Rumfitt
13. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish David Sosa
Part IV: The Non-Existent, the Fictional, and the Exotic
14. Exotica Tim Crane
15. Judgements of Co-Identification Stacie Friend
16. Something and the Things that do not Exist Dolf Rami
17. Can We Dispense with Non-Existent Intentionalia? Alberto Voltolini
Part V: Vagueness
18. Two Kinds of Indeterminacy Dorothy Edgington
19. Sainsbury’s Scrambled Sorites Dianna Raffman
20. Vagueness Redux: Boundaryless Concepts, the Transition Problem and Luminosity Crispin Wright.
Index
Biography
Alex Grzankowski is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College and the Associate Director of the Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London. His research is in the Philosophy of Mind and Language with a focus on intentionality and representation. He is an editor of Nonpropositional Intentionality (2018).
Anthony Savile is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.
