ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
This project is about the representation of particular objects in language and thought, a topic which has been at the forefront of philosophical attention for more than a century. About fifty years ago, ‘descriptivism’ was demoted from its dominant position in philosophy in favour of the theory of ‘direct reference’. A similar shift away from descriptivism has been a noticeable feature of work on the representation of objects in cognitive science, where the notion of an ‘object file’ has made it possible to unify research on perception and on infant cognition. The object file construct is in many respects similar to the philosophical idea of direct (non-descriptive) grounding for thoughts…
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