Conférence - David Papineau - Thoughts and Things : Indexicality

Collège de France - Sélection · Dec 2, 2024 · 1h 3m

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Conférence - David Papineau - Thoughts and Things : Indexicality

David Papineau

Département de philosophie, King's College London

Résumé :

Are not many thoughts essentially indexical, in a way that adds a distinctive mode of presentation to their referential content?

We need to be careful, however, not to infer the indexicality of thoughts too quickly from the indexicality of their linguistic expression. While linguistic indexicality is common, for understandable reasons, nearly of the thoughts so…