The Publicity of Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4351548 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Onofri (0000-0003-0663-797X, University of Graz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 272 |
| Pages | 521-541 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqx062 |
| OpenAlex | W2784268062 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 29 |
An influential tradition holds that thoughts are public: different thinkers share many of their thoughts, and the same applies to a single subject at different times. This 'publicity principle' has recently come under attack. Arguments by Mark Crimmins, Richard Heck and Brian Loar seem to show that publicity is inconsistent with the widely accepted principle that someone who is ignorant or mistaken about certain identity facts will have distinct thoughts about the relevant object-for instance, the astronomer who does not know that Hesperus is Phosphorus will have two distinct thoughts Hesperus is bright and Phosphorus is bright. In this paper, I argue that publicity can be defended if we adopt a relational account on which thoughts are individuated by their mutual relations. I then go on to develop a specific relational theory-the 'linking account'-and contrast it with other relational views
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Object (grammar · Political science · Publicity · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Private Investigators and Public Speakers
A Puzzle about Communication
Relationism and the Problem of Publicity
Sharing Our Concepts with Machines
The transparency of mental vehicles
Mental filing
Thinking Disagreement
Shareability of thought and Frege's constraint
Luck and the value of communication
Referential Understanding, Luck, and Knowledge of Reference
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |