Thinking About Things

210 Pages·2018·1.337 MB·English

by  Sainsbury, Mark

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Thinking About Things
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Thinking About
Things
Mark Sainsbury
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. IntentionalityandIntensionality 3
2. “Something” 29
3. ADisplayTheoryofAttitudeAttribution 62
4. Nonspecificity 103
5. Inference 121
6. RelationalityandRepresentation 143
Flashbacks 181
References 187
IndexofExamples 195
GeneralIndex 197
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Acknowledgments
MaterialfromChapters1and6waspublishedas“IntentionalRelations”
inArgumenta2017,editedbyAlbertoVoltolini.MaterialfromChapter3
waspublishedas“AttitudesonDisplay”inNon-PropositionalAttitudes,
editedbyAlexGrzankowskiandMichelleMontague(OxfordUniversity
Press).Mythankstothepublishersandeditorsforpermissiontousethe
materialhere.
I thank the University of Texas at Austin for granting me sabbatical
leave (Faculty Research Award) in Fall 2012, when I began work on
the book, and for providing other research support, in particular a
Jesse H. Jones Regents Professorship in Liberal Arts. I have benefited
from discussions at conferences: in Turin in June 2015, at CUNY
Graduate Center in February 2016, at King’s College London in May
2016, and at the University of the Witwatersrand in August 2016. For
helpful observations on these occasions I am specially grateful to Bill
Brewer, Hartry Field, Alex Orenstein, David Papineau, Graham Priest,
Murali Ramachandran, Kate Ritchie, Alberto Voltolini, and Timothy
Williamson.
I am indebted to many people for comments on draft versions,
including Oxford University Press’s anonymous referees, my colleague
Ray Buchanan, and to Bryan Pickel and Zach Blaesi, both of whom
readearliercompletedraftsandgaveinvaluablefeedback.Iofferspecial
thanks to Graeme Forbes, who, marked-up draft under his arm, gen-
erously came to Austin from Boulder for a couple of days to talk to
me about these issues. The University of Texas has excellent graduate
students, and I have benefited from their feedback in various graduate
seminarsgiven jointlywith Michael Tye; andMichael himself has been
arelentlessandinspiringcritic.
My wife Victoria Goodman gave me challenging comments at every
stage,savingmefromendlessmistakesofsubstanceandstyle.Ioweher
thedeepestthanks,forthisandforeverythingelse.