Reference and Consciousness
What explains our ability to refer to the objects we perceive? John Cambell argues that our capacity for reference is explained by our capacity to attend selectively to the objects of which we are aware; that this capacity for conscious attention to a perceived object is what provides us withour knowledge of reference. When someone makes a reference to a perceived object, your knowledge of which thing they are talking about is constituted by your consciously attending to the relevant object. Campbell articulates the connections between these three concepts: reference, attention, andconsciousness. He looks at the metaphysical conception of the…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-924380-8
- EAN: 9780199243808
- Produktnummer: 22671579
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.4 cm x D2.1 cm 599 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 599
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John Campbell is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at Oxford University.
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