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Shareability of thought and Frege's constraint: a reply to Onofri

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Onofri [Onofri, A. 2018. ‘The Publicity of Thought.’ Philosophical Quarterly 68 (272): 521–541.] proposes an individuation criterion for thoughts that purports to satisfy both shareability (the notion that different thinkers, or a single thinker at different times, can and generally do think type-identical thoughts) and Frege's constraint (according to which two thoughts are different if it is possible for a rational subject to endorse one while rejecting the other). I argue that his proposal fails to satisfy Frege's constraint. Then I propose a modification to Onofri's proposal to fix the problem.

Source: Inquiry

DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2022.2034526

Author: Romain Bourdoncle

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, Institut Jean Nicod, École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Language: English

Topic: Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres

Awards: Paris Sciences et Lettres, Frontières en cognition, G741453844