.... For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected] 2015 Abstract This paper has a narrow and a broader target. The narrow target is a particular version of what I call the mental-files conception of singular thought (MFC), proposed by Robin Jeshion, and known as cognitivism . The broader target...

...The chapter is devoted to discussing an objection which Angel Pinillos raised to the mental file account of de jure co-reference. According to the objection, it is possible for A and B, and for B and C, to be co-referential de jure, even though A and C...

...François Recanati, Do Mental Files Obey Strawson?s Constraint? In: The Fragmented Mind. Edited by: Cristina Borgoni, Dirk Kindermann, and Andrea Onofri, Oxford University Press. © François Recanati 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198850670.003.0010 This chapter argues...

..., the rationality or irrationality of fragmentation, fragmentation’s role in language, the relationship between fragmentation and mental files, and the implications of fragmentation for the analysis of implicit attitudes....

...Rachel Goodman and James Genone, Singular Thought and Mental Files In: Singular Thought and Mental Files. Edited by: Rachel Goodman, James Genone, & Nick Kroll, Oxford University Press (2020). © the several contributors. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198746881.003.0001...

...Mark Sainsbury, Varieties of Singularity In: Singular Thought and Mental Files. Edited by: Rachel Goodman, James Genone, & Nick Kroll, Oxford University Press (2020). © the several contributors. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198746881.003.0002 What is it for a thought...

...Jeffrey C. King, Singular Thought, Russellianism, and Mental Files In: Singular Thought and Mental Files. Edited by: Rachel Goodman, James Genone, & Nick Kroll, Oxford University Press (2020). © the several contributors. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198746881.003.0005...

...Ángel Pinillos, De Jure Anti-Coreference and Mental Files In: Singular Thought and Mental Files. Edited by: Rachel Goodman, James Genone, & Nick Kroll, Oxford University Press (2020). © the several contributors. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198746881.003.0009...

...Imogen Dickie, Cognitive Focus In: Singular Thought and Mental Files. Edited by: Rachel Goodman, James Genone, & Nick Kroll, Oxford University Press (2020). © the several contributors. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198746881.003.0011 The first part of the chapter...

...The communication of singular thoughts is said to proceed through a general mechanism: the linguistic evocation of mental files via elements of their content. The issue arises whether that mechanism is semantic or pragmatic. In dealing with this issue, the two standard approaches to the referential...

...Michael Murez, Belief Fragments and Mental Files In: The Fragmented Mind. Edited by: Cristina Borgoni, Dirk Kindermann, and Andrea Onofri, Oxford University Press. © Michael Murez 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198850670.003.0011 Belief fragments and mental files...

...Coinciding with recognition of the need for more clarity about the notion of singular (or de re) thought, there has been a surge of interest in the notion of a mental file as a way to understand what is distinctive about singular thought. But what isn’t always clear is what mental files are meant...

.... 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567881.001.0001 ——— (2011) Mental Files and Identity. Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture, presented at Oxford University, 25 Jan. < http://www.philosophie.ch/kevin/festschrift/Recanati-paper.pdf > (accessed Nov. 2011). Sainsbury, Mark R. ( 2005 ) Reference...

...This book is a sequel to Recanati’s Mental Files (OUP 2012), and pursues the exploration of the mental file framework for thinking about concepts and singular reference. Mental files are based on 'epistemically rewarding' relations to objects in the environment. Standing...

... that singular thought about an object involves nondescriptive or de re ways of thinking of that object, that is, modes of presentation resting on contextual relations of ‘acquaintance’ to the object. Such modes of presentation are analysed as mental files in which the subject...

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... thoughts can only be entertained by thinkers who are located in the right context and bear the right relations to the entities talked about. This raises the communication problem: how do we communicate such thoughts across contexts? A solution is offered, in the mental file framework. In the second part...

... Language , vol. 49, 221–42. Dordrecht: Reidel. Ninan, Dilip . ( 2010 ). “De Se Attitudes: Ascription and Communication”. Philosophy Compass 5(7). 551–67. 10.1111/j.1747–9991.2010.00290.x. Ninan, Dilip . ( 2015 ). “On Recanati’s Mental Files...

...Michael Murez, Joulia Smortchkova, and Brent Strickland, The Mental Files Theory of Singular Thought In: Singular Thought and Mental Files. Edited by: Rachel Goodman, James Genone, & Nick Kroll, Oxford University Press (2020). © the several contributors. DOI...

... the output to be about. After giving reasons to think the standard Kripkean theory might not work well here, it suggests an alternative theory of communication about particular entities, the mental file framework, which is more apt for theorizing about AI systems. It then abstracts from the human-centric...