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The Identity of Modes of Presentation and Mental Files| old_uid | 14840 |
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| title | The Identity of Modes of Presentation and Mental Files |
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| start_date | 2014/12/17 |
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| schedule | 16h-18h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | François Recanati (Mental Files) maintains that modes of presentation are mental files and that mental files must be individuated via their grounding acquaintance relations. Although – I think – it is important to know de facto identity conditions on modes of presentation, François’s theory of mental files lacks them: the proposed identity conditions on files in terms of acquaintance relations are just normative; as such, they have exceptions. In my talk, I will argue that this lack generates difficulties. I will then examine three candidates for de facto identity conditions on modes of presentation, respectively based on the notions of (i) de jure coreference (or coordination), (ii) internal coreference and the new notion of (iii) treating two designators as coreferring. I will criticize (i) and (ii), and defend (iii). François may adopt proposal (iii), if he agrees to make certain (non-radical) changes in his theory of mental files. |
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| responsibles | Ueda |
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