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Mental Files in Flux
Francois Recanati
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Description for Mental Files in Flux
Hardback. Francois Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. He now explores what happens to mental files in a dynamic setting: Recanati argues that communication involves interpersonal dynamic files. Series: Lines of Thought. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
François Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. Mental files are based on 'epistemically rewarding' relations to objects in the environment. Standing in such relations to objects puts the subject in a position to gain information regarding them. The information thus gained goes into the file based on the relevant relation. Files do not merely store information about objects, however, they refer to them and serve as singular terms in the language of thought, with a relational (nondescriptivist) semantics. In this framework, the ... Read more
François Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. Mental files are based on 'epistemically rewarding' relations to objects in the environment. Standing in such relations to objects puts the subject in a position to gain information regarding them. The information thus gained goes into the file based on the relevant relation. Files do not merely store information about objects, however, they refer to them and serve as singular terms in the language of thought, with a relational (nondescriptivist) semantics. In this framework, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Lines of Thought
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198790358
SKU
V9780198790358
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About Francois Recanati
François Recanati received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne) in the late seventies and has been a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris ever since. In addition, he is a Professorial Fellow at Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, and the Director of Institut Jean-Nicod in Paris. His published ... Read more
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