A Lemma from Nowhere
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This paper uses cases involving empty singular terms (on the one hand, cases of what I call “accidental aboutness-failure”; on the other, cases involving proper names occurring in fictions) to argue for a claim about the goal of ordinary belief-forming activity, and shows how this claim generates new foundations for the theory of reference.
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Dickie, I. (2020). A Lemma from Nowhere. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana De Filosofía, 52(154), 11–47. https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2020.1173
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Anscombe, G.E.M., 1957, Intention, Blackwell, Oxford.
Austen, J., 1814, Mansfield Park, Thomas Egerton, London. Project Gutenberg, release date 2010.
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Benacerraf, P. and H. Putnam (comps.), 1983, Philosophy of Mathematics Selected Readings, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Bratman, M., 1987, Intentions, Plans, and Practical Reason, CSLI, Stanford.
Burgess, A. and B. Sherman (comps.), 2014, Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Camp, E., 2017, “Perspectives in Imaginative Engagement with Fiction”, Philosophical Perspectives, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 73–102.
Camp, E., 2009, “Two Varieties of Literary Imagination: Metaphor, Fiction, and Thought Experiments”, Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Poetry and Philosophy, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 107–130.
Campbell, J., 2002, Reference and Consciousness, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Conee, E. and R. Feldman., 1998, “The Generality Problem for Reliabilism”, Philosophical Studies, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 1–29.
Cumming, S., 2014, “Discourse Content”, in A. Burgess and B. Sherman 2014, pp. 214–230.
Davidson, D., 1980, Essays on Actions and Events, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Davidson, D., 1980a, “Actions, Reasons, and Causes”, in D. Davidson 1980.
Davidson, D., 1980b, “Intending”, in D. Davidson 1980.
Defoe, D., 2015, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Project Gutenberg edition.
Dickie, I., 2015, Fixing Reference, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Evans, G., 1982, The Varieties of Reference, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Frankfurt, H., 1978, “The Problem of Action”, American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 157–162.
Gendler, T., 2000, “The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance”, Journal of Philosophy, vol. 97 no. 2, pp. 55–81.
Heck, R., 2017, “Cognitive Hunger: Remarks on Imogen Dickie’s Fixing Reference”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 738–744.
Hilbert, D., 1983, “On the Infinite”, in P. Benacerraf and H. Putnam 1983.
Horn. L. and G. Ward (comps.), 2004, The Handbook of Pragmatics, Blackwell, Oxford.
Kripke, S., 2013, Reference and Existence, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Lewis, D., 1988, “Relevant Implication”, Theoria, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 161–174.
Lewis, D., 1983, “Postscript to Truth in Fiction”, Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 276–280.
Lewis, D., 1978, “Truth in Fiction”, American Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 37–46.
Martin, M., 2002, “The Transparency of Experience”, Mind and Language, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 376–425.
Nagel, E., 1977, “Goal–Directed Processes in Biology”, The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 74, no. 5, pp. 261–279.
O’Brian, P., 2008, The Nutmeg of Consolation, Harper Perennial, London.
O’Brian, P., 2003a, The Hundred Days, Harper Collins, London.
O’Brian, P., 2003b, Blue at the Mizzen, Harper Collins, London.
Peacocke, C., 1992, A Study of Concepts, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Roberts, C., 2004, “Context in Dynamic Interpretation”, in L. Horn and G. Ward 2004, pp. 197–220.
Sosa E., 2015, Judgment and Agency, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Soteriou, M., 2016, Disjunctivism, Routledge, London.
Stalnaker, R., 1999, Context and Content, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Stalnaker, R., 1999a, “The Problem of Logical Omniscience (II)”, in R. Stalnaker 1999.
Stalnaker, R., 1991, “The Problem of Logical Omniscience”, Synthese, vol. 89, no. 3, pp. 425–440.
Stalnaker, R., 1984, Inquiry, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Velleman, J.D., 2000, The Possibility of Practical Reason, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Walton, K., 1993, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Yalcin, S., 2018, “Belief as Question Sensitive”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 97, no. 1, pp. 23–47.
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