Corazza's Critique of the Concept of Object-Dependent Thought

• Authors: Aleksander Latkowski

Title variants

PL

O argumencie Corazzy przeciw pojęciu myśli zależnej od przedmiotu

EN

Corazza's Critique of the Concept of Object-Dependent Thought

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The aim of the article is to prove that the concept of an object-dependent thought withstands the critique put forward by Eros Corazza. In the first section of the article I present and elaborate on the concept of object-dependent thought, formulated for the first time by Gareth Evans. In the second section I present Corazza’s criticism of this concept and point to the fact - not emphasized enough by Corazza - that it may be understood in two different ways: methodological and ontological. In the final part of the article I defend the concept of object-dependent thoughts. I show that ontological intuitions are not a sufficient ground for the refutation of the concept, since this would mean that they need to be strengthened with methodological assumptions. Those assumptions however - in the light of my argumentation - do not seem justified.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 43-72

Dates

published

2016-09-01

Contributors

author

Aleksander Latkowski