New Essays on Singular Thought
- Oxford Oxford University Press 2012
- 324p
includes index and biblioraphy
1. The Structure of Singular thought..........37 Getting a thing into a thought...........39 Three perspectives on Quantifying in .............64 On Singularity............77 2. Conditions on Singular Thought ........103 Singular thought: Acquaintance, Semantic instrumentalism, and Cognitivism .............105 Singular thought : In defence of Acquaintance..............141 3. Demonstrative and Communication-Based reference and thought.............191 Demonstrative reference, the relational view of Experience, and the Proximality principle............................193 We are acquainted with ordinary things.............213 Millian Externalism ............246 4. Thinking of Nothing .................271 Fictional Singular imaginings............273 Internationality without exotica..............300