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32On Our Understanding of Singular Negative Existential Statements: A Defense of Shallow Pretense TheoryPhilosophia 49 (5): 2133-2155. 2021.In uttering negative existential sentences, we do not mention but use an empty singular term. A pretense account explains the use in terms of pretense. I argue that our understanding of negative existential statements can be successfully explained by Crimmins’ theory of shallow pretense if it is supplemented and reconstructed properly. First, I explain the notion of shallow pretense and supplement Crimmin’s theory with an Evansian account that we immediately grasp the phenomenology of what is pr…Read more
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64Co-filing and De Jure Co-referential Thought in the Mental Files FrameworkErkenntnis 87 (1): 309-345. 2019.In the mental files framework, mental files contain pieces of information. Then, how can we explain the fact that multiple pieces of information are stored in a single mental file? This fact can be called ‘co-filing’. Recanati recommends an account of co-filing as a way to avoid the circularity that can occur when one attempts to explain co-filing in terms of the fact that pieces of information are taken to be about the same object. I argue that his account is far from being satisfactory and tha…Read more
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84Mental files, concepts, and bodies of informationSynthese 195 (8): 3499-3518. 2018.In this paper, I argue that mental files are both concepts and bodies of information, against the existing views proposed by Fodor and Recanati. Fodor argues that mental files are not concepts but memories of information because concepts are mental symbols. However, Fodor’s argument against the identification of mental files with concepts fails. Recanati disagrees with Fodor and argues that mental files are concepts. But Recanati’s view does not differ essentially from Fodor’s because Recanati h…Read more
Poong Lee
Kyung Hee University
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Kyung Hee UniversityAssistant Professor
Korea (Republic of)
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |