Pensamientos Demostrativosivos y Relaciones Causales
Demonstrative Thougths and Causal Relations
Palabras clave:
Evans, Burge, Campbell, Experiencia perceptual, Pensamientos demostrativos, Semántica (es)Evans, Burge, Campbell, Perceptual experience, Demonstrative thoughts, Causal relations (en)
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I am interested in researching how it is that our demonstrative thoughts dependent on perceptual experience are about material objects? What is, and how is the relationship between a mental state and a material object, when the first is about the second? That is, how it is that a demonstrative thought relates to a material object? How do our demonstrative thoughts about the material world refer to the material world? I think there are two very general answers to this question and each of those ways depends on our own version of the mind. On the one hand, there is a Fregean version of the mind, according to which there are modes of presentation which outline the mind’s shape and determine the objects which the mind thinks about. There is another, more scientific, version of the mind which I call non-Fregean, according to which there are no modes of presentation that determine the objects about which the mind thinks, but rather there are causal relationships (perhaps evolutionarily developed) between kinds of things and kinds of mental states that effectively determine which objects the mind has thoughts about. I want to show why I think the non-Fregean treatment of the question does not give a satisfactory explanation of how it is possible that a mind can have true thoughts. My objections have to do with the way they conceive the connection between mind and the world, in order to make thought possible.
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