Talking about: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference

Combining new insights from cognitive science and speech art theory, Unnsteinsson develops a compelling theory of singular...
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Author: Elmar Unnsteinsson
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Language: English
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Talking about: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference by Unnsteinsson, Elmar

Talking about: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference

Dhs. 598.05

Talking about: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference

Dhs. 598.05
Author: Elmar Unnsteinsson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Combining new insights from cognitive science and speech art theory, Unnsteinsson develops a compelling theory of singular reference which avoids well-known puzzles and objections. The theory, called Edenic intentionalism, is grounded in a mechanistic perspective on explanation in cognitive science and a new Gricean account of speaker meaning and speaker reference. Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference develops an account of the mental state of identity confusion and separates questions about the nature of representational acts and representational states. Unnsteinsson proposes a division of labour, but Edenic intentionalism is strictly a theory of intentional, mind-directed representational acts, taking speech acts as its paradigm case.

Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference argues that mental mechanisms ought to be postulated to explain human cognitive capacities. Pragmatic competence is the capacity to successfully produce utterances with a communicative intention. By examining the characteristic function and malfunction of the mechanism for referential competence, the study shows that confused reference should be understood as a type of malfunction. This is the core thesis of Edenic intentionalism: that the identity confusion disrupts the normal function of the speech art of reference.


Author: Elmar Unnsteinsson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/14/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780192865137

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