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dc.contributor.authorBerto, Francesco
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-04T10:30:15Z
dc.date.available2018-09-04T10:30:15Z
dc.date.issued2018-08
dc.identifier255688765
dc.identifierdc248c79-9911-4329-81b2-c8aabf4038d5
dc.identifier85020294393
dc.identifier.citationBerto , F 2018 , ' Aboutness in imagination ' , Philosophical Studies , vol. 175 , no. 8 , pp. 1871-1886 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-0937-yen
dc.identifier.issn0031-8116
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-3246-657X/work/48132031
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/15954
dc.description.abstractI present a formal theory of the logic and aboutness of imagination. Aboutness is understood as the relation between meaningful items and what they concern, as per Yablo and Fine’s works on the notion. Imagination is understood as per Chalmers’ positive conceivability: the intentional state of a subject who conceives that p by imagining a situation—a configuration of objects and properties—verifying p. So far aboutness theory has been developed mainly for linguistic representation, but it is natural to extend it to intentional states. The proposed framework combines a modal semantics with a mereology of contents: imagination operators are understood as variably strict quantifiers over worlds with a content-preservation constraint.
dc.format.extent16
dc.format.extent342782
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPhilosophical Studiesen
dc.subjectAboutnessen
dc.subjectContent-preserving entailmenten
dc.subjectIntentionalityen
dc.subjectLogic of imaginationen
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subjectPhilosophyen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.titleAboutness in imaginationen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Philosophyen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11098-017-0937-y
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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