Concept Originalism, Reference-Shift and Belief Reports
| Autor: | Mohammad Saleh Zarepour, Seyed N. Mousavian |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Philosophy of science
Originalism Root (linguistics) Philosophy media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences General Social Sciences Metaphysics Social Sciences(all) 06 humanities and the arts 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Epistemology Philosophy of language Causal theory of reference Identity (philosophy) Perception 060302 philosophy 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Mousavian, S N & Zarepour, M S 2018, ' Concept Originalism, Reference-Shift and Belief Reports ', Synthese, vol. 195, no. 1, pp. 269-285 . < https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1217-7 > University of Manchester-PURE |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-016-1217-7 |
| Popis: | Concept originalism, recently introduced and defended by Sainsbury and Tye (S&T) (Proc Aristotelian Soc Suppl Vol 85:101–124, 2011, Seven puzzles of thought and how to solve them: an originalist theory of concepts. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012), Tye (in Brogaard, Does perception have content? Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014), and Sainsbury (Erkenntnis 80:195–214, 2015), holds that “atomic concepts are to be individuated by their historical origins, as opposed to their semantic or epistemic properties” (S&T 2012, p. 40). The view is immune to Gareth Evans’s “Madagascar” objection to the Causal Theory of Reference since it allows a concept (and thus a name) to change its reference over time without losing its identity. The possibility of (inadvertent) reference-shift, however, raises the problem of misleading belief reports. S&T try to tackle the problem by strengthening the sufficient condition for a truthful belief report. We will argue that, first, their solution fails, second, and more importantly, their diagnosis of the root of the problem is misguided, third, two initially appealing ways out of the problem fail, and fourth, the prospect of finding a solution to the problem within CO is dim. The view opens the Pandora’s box of reference-shift, in a wide range of cases, without providing the necessary semantic means to take care of them. |
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