Singular Belief

Frank Jackson*

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    Abstract

    In Spreading the Word, Simon Blackburn defends universalism about singular thought. The aim of this chapter is to defend the same view, but within a more thorough-going possible worlds framework. Two central questions about singular belief are addressed. The first is what should be said about the content of singular beliefs, and in particular about the relation between their contents and the objects that these beliefs are about. In what sense are their contents object-involving? The second question is what we should say about the similarities and differences, in belief contents and belief states, between a case in which there is some particular object a subject has a belief about and one where there is an otherwise identical subject but the object in question is absent.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPassions and Projections
    Subtitle of host publicationThemes from the Philosophy of Simon Blackburn
    EditorsRobert N. Johnson, Michael Smith
    Place of PublicationOxford
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Chapter3
    Pages49-63
    Number of pages14
    ISBN (Electronic)9780191789717
    ISBN (Print)9780198723172
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 22 Jan 2015

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