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Talking About
- An Intentionalist Theory of Reference
Engelsk Hardback
Talking About
- An Intentionalist Theory of Reference
Engelsk Hardback

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Combining new insights from cognitive science and speech act 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 act of reference.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
218
ISBN-13:
9780192865137
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0192865137
Udg. Dato:
14 jul 2022
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
143mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
14 jul 2022
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