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This paper focuses on two enduring features of Gareth Evans’s work. The first is his rethinking of standard ways of understanding the Fregean notion of sense and the second his sustained attempt to undercut the standard opposition... more
Gareth Evans, in The Causal Theory of Names, states that the causal theory of reference needs to be expanded to include what he calls multiple "bases". After the initial baptism, the use of the name in the presence of the person can,... more
THE CONTENT OF PERCEPTION Analysis of the debate between conceptualism and non-conceptualism. Il lavoro è stato sviluppato presso l'Università degli Studi di Milano, supervisionato da Paolo Spinicci in qualità di Relatore e da Andrea... more
Page 148. Filip Kawczyński University of Warsaw filip. kawczynski@ gmail. com The Hybrid Theory of Reference for Proper Names Abstract: In this paper I present main ideas of the Hybrid Theory of Reference for Proper Names. ...
When Burge uses ‘explication’ (quite often, during the period of interest to me—from the late 70s through to the early 90s, to about the time of ‘Content Preservation’) he means something relatively distinct directed at conceptual... more
This paper is largely exegetical/interpretive. My goal is to demonstrate that some criticisms that have been leveled against the program Gareth Evans constructs in The Varieties of Reference (Evans 1980, henceforth VR) misfire because... more
Keywords: communication, semantics/pragmatics, direct reference theory, singular thoughts, Russell's Principle, Generality Constraint, Husserl, Evans, Perry, twin examples, demonstratives, demonstrative identification, perception,... more
The framework for the papers in this volume is set by the wide-ranging philosophical contributions of Gareth Evans, who died in 1980 at the age of 34. In the papers gathered together in the posthumously published Collected Papers and in... more
Par une sélection de six textes emblématiques traduits en français, l'enjeu du présent volume est d'introduire le lecteur francophone à l'histoire de la controverse sur le contenu conceptuel de la perception et d'interroger la pertinence... more
Wie denken und sprechen wir eigentlich über einzelne Objekte in Raum und Zeit? Diese Frage rührt gleichermaßen an Grundprobleme der neueren sprachanalytischen Philosophie und der transzendentalen Phänomenologie Husserls. Unter dem Titel... more
David Lewis (1979) presents a case in which two gods have omniscient propositional knowledge. But each god fails to know something very basic: which of the two gods it is (520-1). It thus seems that the content of one’s de se knowledge... more
Replies to Critics on I, Me, Mine. Back to Kant and Back Again (OUP 2017, pb 2019)
High-level panels are institutionalized diplomatic instruments comprising high-profile and respected individuals to address a particular issue. Building on traditional and contemporary institutions in recognizing the Wise or Elderly as... more
Bu yazının esas gayesi, Evans’ın melez gönderim teorisini eleştirmektir. Görülecektir ki, Evans’ın teorisi kimi düşünce-deneylerinde yanlış sonuçlar vermektedir. Yazı, iki bölümden oluşmaktadır. İlk bölümde Evans’ın teorisinin kısa bir... more
Do we have to choose between conceptualism and non-conceptualism? Forthcoming in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies (2015) Author: Corijn van Mazijk ABSTRACT It is today acknowledged by many that the debate about... more
According to actionism (Noë 2010), perception constitutively depends on implicit knowledge of the way sensory stimulations vary as a consequence of the perceiver’s self-movement. My aim in this contribution is to develop an alternative... more
Available via the following link: https://academic.oup.com/monist/article/103/4/381/5905781?guestAccessKey=20778f31-6b16-4f51-b084-0f50cb549500 This essay aims to explore the significance of Hilary Putnam’s reflections on the division... more
Gareth Evans’ account of Identification-freedom (IF), which he develops in Chapters 6 and 7 of The Varieties of Reference (henceforth VR) is almost universally misunderstood. My exegesis of Evans’ account — like any non-trivial exegesis... more
This paper is about first-person thoughts—thoughts about oneself that are expressible through uses of first-person pronouns (for example, ‘I’). It is widely held that first-person thoughts cannot be shared. My aim is to postpone rejection... more
(with Edward Mark)
This is the critical notice of Alex Byrne's *Transparency and Self-Knowledge*
This is the critical notice of Alex Byrne's *Transparency and Self-Knowledge*
The objectives of the present paper are, firstly, to question the conception according to which propositional constituents are exhausted by the assignment of referential contents. Secondly, to argue that introducing the notion of... more
A substantial revision (correction/modification) of the interpretation of Husserl's notion of a "quasi-subject without positing" presented in this contribution is to be found in "Husserl über Existenz und Existenzurteile" (2023).... more
Trabalho apresentado na SAF 2013 - XIV Semana dos anlunos da pós-graduação em filosofia da PUC-Rio, posteriormente publicado na Analógos XIV, revista dos anais do evento. Resumo: O principal objetivo deste texto é chamar atenção para os... more
This paper is interested in the relationship between language and reality. The associated metaphysical claims are never overtly expressed by the authors in the works discussed here as being in attempt to study this... more
In "Understanding Demonstratives", Gareth Evans bites the bullet regarding Rip van Winkle cases in cognitive dynamics: the fact that Rip sleeps for twenty years and completely loses track of time means he is unable to retain his original... more
Es un hecho que podemos tener pensamientos acerca de objetos materiales; podemos formar pensamientos demostrativos como el expresado por la oración “Eso es fastidioso” (refiriéndonos a un objeto que estamos percibiendo). Y también es un... more
Talk, held at the GAP.5 conference "Argument und Analyse" in Bielefeld, Sept. 2003, under the title "Über den Bezug von 'ich'". Most of this material was used in chs. 2-3 of my book "Subjektivität, Intersubjektivität, Personalität"... more
In “Transparency, Belief, Intention” Alex Byrne argues that transparency — our ability to form beliefs about some of our intentional mental states by considering their subject-matter, rather than on the basis of special psychological... more
It is not well known that in his Göttingen period (1901-1916) Edmund Husserl developed a kind of direct reference theory, anticipating, among other things, the distinction between referential and attributive use of a definite description,... more
La questione animale, com’è emerso dall’articolo di Andrea Raimondi e dalle interviste ai Professori Mormino e Zucchi pubblicati su Spazio Filosofico, è un tema che nasconde dietro ad un’etichetta apparentemente semplice, molte domande... more
What capacities for discrimination must a subject possess in order to entertain singular thoughts? Evans has suggested that a subject must be able to discriminate his referent from all other entities in order to be able to do so; what he... more
presented 2013, Conference „Varieties of Evans“, Stuttgart
To explain fundamental aspects of human thinking like its systematicity and productivity we need an account of how thoughts – mental acts and states with propositional content – can ‘consist of parts’ with subpropositional content.... more
A partir de una discusión de la gramática lógica de Davidson para oraciones de acción, propongo una caracterización funcional de la predicación y la referencia como estructuras semánticas. En contradicción con Davidson y apoyado por... more
To make a case for non-conceptualism, Heck (2007) turns to an apparent dichotomy between linguistic and iconic representations. According to Heck, whereas linguistic representations have conceptual content, the content of iconic... more
Gareth Evans a déclaré que la théorie causale de la référence doit être élargie pour inclure ce qu'il appelle des « bases multiples ». Après le baptême initial, l'utilisation du nom en présence de la personne peut, dans les bonnes... more