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Thinking about things

Title
Thinking about things / Mark Sainsbury.
Author
Sainsbury, R. M. (Richard Mark)
Publication
  • Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
199 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying horse, Pegasus. How is this possible? How can we think about things that do not exist, like unicorns and Pegasus? They are not there to be thought about, yet we think about them just as easily as we think about things that do exist. Thinking About Things addresses these and related questions, taking as its framework a representational theory of mind. It explains how mental states are attributed, what their aboutness consists in, whether or not they are relational, and whether any of them involve nonexistent things."--
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-193) and index.
Contents
Intentionality and intensionality -- "something" -- A display theory of attitude attribution -- Nonspecificity -- Inference -- Relationality and representation -- Flashback..
Call Number
JFD 18-2988
ISBN
  • 0198803346
  • 9780198803348
OCLC
1007063918
Author
Sainsbury, R. M. (Richard Mark), author.
Title
Thinking about things / Mark Sainsbury.
Publisher
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First Edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-193) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 18-2988
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