Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: In virtue of what are particular individuals or objects thought about? I call this thegrounding question. A consensus answer isbifurcationism: objects can be thought about in virtue of both satisfactional grounds—roughly, in virtue of their unique satisfaction of conditions that figure in a subject's thought—and non‐satisfactional grounds. Bifurcationism is a consensus view, but it comes in different flavours that correspond to different approaches to answering the grounding question. This paper draws on Saul Kripke's approach to linguistic reference in order to make recommendations about how to move toward a sensible bifurcationism concerning what grounds thought about particulars.
Source: Theoria
DOI: 10.1111/theo.12377
Author: Jessica Pepp
Institution: Uppsala University
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,500
OpenAlex ID: W4200411203