Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0192688642
• ISBN-13: 9780192688644
• Author:  Elmar Unnsteinsson

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.

Table contents:

1 Attitude Ascriptions and Frege’s Curse

2 The State of Confusion

3 Representational Acts and Implicit Attitudes

4 Intention or Easy Meanings?

5 Explanation, Mechanism, and Function

6 Referential Competence

7 Edenic Intentionalism

8 Good Cases, Bad Cases

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