Conférence - David Papineau - Thoughts and Things : Ecological Minds

Collège de France - Sélection · Nov 18, 2024 · 50m

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Conférence - David Papineau - Thoughts and Things : Ecological Minds

David Papineau

Département de philosophie, King's College London

Résumé :

Humans and other animals have minds because reality is predictable. The world is full of items that behave in regular ways. Our minds lock onto these items so that we can anticipate events and act accordingly.

The central role of thoughts is thus to refer to items in the world. I shall argue on this basis that reference is the only notion of semantic content we…