Perspectival thought
Subtitle: a plea for (moderate) relativism
By: François Recanati
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780199230532; 9780199230549
Subjects: Relativity; Relationism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-299) and index
Table of contents: title: Moderate relativism; title: The framework; title: The distribution of content; title: Radical vs. moderate relativism; title: Two levels of content; title: Branch points for moderate relativism; title: The debate over temporalism (1) : do we need temporal propositions?; title: Modal vs. extensional treatments of tense; title: What is at stake?; title: Modal and temporal innocence; title: Temporal operators and temporal propositions in an extensional framework; title: The debate over temporalism (2) : can we believe temporal propositions?; title: An epistemic argument against temporalism; title: Rebutting Richard's argument; title: Relativistic disagreement; title: Relativization and indexicality; title: Index, context, and content; title: The two-stage picture : Lewis vs. Kaplan and Stalnaker; title: Rescuing the two-stage picture; title: Content, character, and cognitive significance; title: Experience and subjectivity; title: Content and mode; title: Duality and the fallacy of misplaced information; title: The content of perceptual judgements; title: Episodic memory; title: Immunity to error through misidentification; title: Implicit self-reference; title: Weak and strong immunity; title: Quasi-perception and quasi-memory; title: Reflexive states; title: Relativization and reflexivity; title: The (alleged) reflexivity of de se thoughts; title: Reflexivity : internal or external?; title: What is wrong with reflexivism; title: The first person point of view; title: De se thoughts and subjectivity; title: Memory and the imagination; title: Imagination and the self; title: Imagination, empathy, and the quasi-de se; title: Egocentricity and beyond; title: Unarticulated constituents in the lekton?; title: The context-dependence of the lekton : how far can we go?; title: Unarticulatedness and the 'concerning' relation; title: Three (alleged) arguments for the externality principle; title: Invariance; title: Self-relative thoughts; title: The problem of the essential indexical; title: Perry against relativized propositions; title: Context-relativity; title: Implicit and explicit de se thoughts; title: Shiftability; title: The generalized reflexive constraint; title: Parametric invariance and m-shiftability; title: Free shiftability; title: The anaphoric mode : a Bühlerian perspective