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Conference Paper: Attention and Proper Names
Title | Attention and Proper Names |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2007 |
Publisher | European Society for Philosophy and Psychology |
Citation | The 15th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP 2007), Geneva, Switzerland, 9-12 July 2007 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Hector is at a party, drinking a martini, conversing with some colleagues. From
across the room, Elaine says, “Hector!” and Hector turns around to see what
Elaine wants. Psychological and neuroscientific evidence suggests that Elaine succeeds
in getting Hector to pay attention because of processingvery different from
the processing that would occur if Hector is already paying attention, and hears
“Hector” in a sentence like “Hector is happy”. Making sense of this everyday use
of proper names arguably providesgood reason to reject causal theories of reference,
and supports,to some degree, a surprising sufficient condition for reference:
if a hearer H is disposed to pay attention when a name n is uttered, then n refers
to H. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/123777 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Hawley, P | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-26T12:23:52Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-09-26T12:23:52Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | The 15th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ESPP 2007), Geneva, Switzerland, 9-12 July 2007 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/123777 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Hector is at a party, drinking a martini, conversing with some colleagues. From across the room, Elaine says, “Hector!” and Hector turns around to see what Elaine wants. Psychological and neuroscientific evidence suggests that Elaine succeeds in getting Hector to pay attention because of processingvery different from the processing that would occur if Hector is already paying attention, and hears “Hector” in a sentence like “Hector is happy”. Making sense of this everyday use of proper names arguably providesgood reason to reject causal theories of reference, and supports,to some degree, a surprising sufficient condition for reference: if a hearer H is disposed to pay attention when a name n is uttered, then n refers to H. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | European Society for Philosophy and Psychology | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, ESPP 2007 | en_HK |
dc.title | Attention and Proper Names | en_HK |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Hawley, P: patrick@hkucc.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Hawley, P=rp01222 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 132628 | en_HK |