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Thought: Its Origin and Reach: Essays for Mark Sainsbury book cover

1st Edition

Thought: Its Origin and Reach Essays for Mark Sainsbury

Edited By Alex Grzankowski, Anthony Savile Copyright 2024
344 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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.

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