Browsing by Subject "Confusion"

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Confusion is corruptive belief in false identity

Unnsteinsson, Elmar (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016-04)

Speakers are confused about identity if they mistake one thing for two or two things for one. I present two plausible models of confusion, the Frege model and the Millikan model. I show how a prominent objection to Fregean models fails and argue that ...
The edenic theory of reference

Unnsteinsson, Elmar (Informa UK Limited, 2018-03-21)

I argue for a theory of the optimal function of the speech act of referring, called the edenic theory. First, the act of singular reference is defined directly in terms of Gricean communicative intentions. Second, I propose a doxastic constraint on the ...
Referential Intentions: A Response to Buchanan and Peet

Unnsteinsson, Elmar (Informa UK Limited, 2018-02-06)

Buchanan [2014] argues for a Gricean solution to well-known counterexamples to direct reference theories of content. Peet [2016] develops a way to change the counterexample so that it seems to speak against Buchanan's own proposal. I argue that both ...

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