François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Conférence - David Papineau - Thoughts and Things : Confusions about Consciousness

David Papineau

Département de philosophie, King's College London

Résumé :

Many of the above ideas found their first clear expression over half a century ago in Kripke's Naming and Necessity. Kripke's work, however, has been misappropriated by many of his interpreters.

This applies particularly to Kripke's anti-materialist challenge at the end of Naming and Necessity. Many read this implicitly endorsing the "two-dimensional semantics" thesis that any term that is not epistemically revelatory must have a semantic content additional to its referent. I shall show that this thesis is not only misguided and but also quite unfaithful to Kripke's intentions. This will allow me to properly explore the options open to the materialist in responding to Kripke's challenge.

Finally I shall relate Kripke's work to the idea with which I started, that the purpose of cognition is to lock on to predictable worldly items, and use this to make sense of Kripke's thinking about metaphysical modality.

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Conférence - David Papineau - Thoughts and Things : Indexicality

David Papineau

Département de philosophie, King's College London

Résumé :

Are not many thoughts essentially indexical, in a way that adds a distinctive mode of presentation to their referential content?

We need to be careful, however, not to infer the indexicality of thoughts too quickly from the indexicality of their linguistic expression. While linguistic indexicality is common, for understandable reasons, nearly of the thoughts so expressed are name-like rather than character-like. I shall argue that even "perceptually, and spatiotemporally, demonstrative" thoughts are best modelled by the (often temporary) creation of name-like files.

The only definite role for character-like thoughts is at the interface between cognition and basic actions. The action-production system identifies objects and places using repeatable character-like referring terms. But precisely because these terms are repeatable they play no lasting role in thought.

By properly understanding the guidance of basic actions, we can both dissolve the so-called "interface problem" and cast light on the nature of conscious sensory experience.

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Colloque - The Limits of Fiction

Fiction and Non-fiction: The Borderlands

Intervenant(s) :

Stacie Friend

Birkbeck, University of London

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Colloque - The Limits of Fiction

Silly Questions

Intervenant(s) :

Richard Woodward

Humboldt Universität Berlin

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Colloque - The Limits of Fiction

Genetic Game Criticism - Uncovering Fictional Truths through Unauthorized Use

Intervenant(s) :

Nele Van de Mosselaer

Tilburg University

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Colloque - The Limits of Fiction

Fictional Periphery and the Status of Nondiegetic Music and Extradiegetic Narrators

Intervenant(s) :

Mario Slugan

Queen Mary University of London

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Colloque - The Limits of Fiction

A New "Quasi" Solution to the Paradox of Fiction

Intervenant(s) :

Louis Rouillé

FNRS/ULiège

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Colloque - The Limits of Fiction

Do Inaccuracies Matter in Fiction?

Intervenant(s) :

Irene Romero Suarez

Birkbeck College

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Colloque - The Limits of Fiction

The Butterfly Effect

Intervenant(s) :

Victor Popa

École normale supérieure

François Recanati

Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit

Collège de France

Année 2024-2025

Colloque - The Limits of Fiction

Fiction as Non-Assertive Communication

Intervenant(s) :

Elisa Paganini

University of Milan