March 23, 2023. 3:00 pm.
Venue: Carlos Santamaria Zentroa, room 2
Abstract:
In my talk, I will argue that some philosophers (e.g. Stephen Neale and François Recanati) have made two misattributions to John Perry's work in “Thought without Representation”. Specifically, that his distinction between an episode being about something vs concerning something is exclusive, and that he used relativized propositions to capture the truth-conditions of episodes with unarticulated constituents. However, I argue that Perry's distinction is not exclusive and that he argues that unarticulated constituents are part of an episode's truth-conditions and that episodes are about both articulated and unarticulated constituents. I also argue that accepting relativized propositions would directly contradict the thesis Perry was defending in his work.