{"product_id":"thinking-about-things-9780198803348","title":"Thinking about Things","description":"In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying horse, Pegasus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow is this possible? How can we think about things that do not exist, like unicorns and Pegasus? They are not there to be thought about, yet we think about them just as easily as we think about things that do exist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThinking About Things\u003c\/em\u003e addresses these and related questions, taking as its framework a representational theory of mind. It explains how mental states are attributed, what their aboutness consists in, whether or not they are relational, and whether any of them involve nonexistent things. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe explanation centers on a new theory of what is involved in attributing attitudes like thinking, hoping, and wanting. These attributions are intensional: some of them seem to involve nonexistent things, and they typically have semantic and logical peculiarities, like the fact that one cannot always substitute one expression for another that refers to the same thing without affecting truth. Mark Sainsbury's new theory, display theory, explains these anomalies. For example, substituting coreferring expressions does not always preserve truth because the correctness of an attribution depends on what concepts it displays, not on what the concepts refer to. And a concept that refers to nothing may be used in an accurate display of what someone is thinking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Sainsbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198803348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Sainsbury\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. Previously he was Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He was the editor of \u003cem\u003eMind\u003c\/em\u003e from 1990 to 2000. He is author of \u003cem\u003eRussell\u003c\/em\u003e (1979), \u003cem\u003eParadoxes\u003c\/em\u003e (1988), \u003cem\u003e Logical Forms\u003c\/em\u003e (1991), \u003cem\u003eDeparting from Frege\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eReference Without Referents\u003c\/em\u003e (2005), \u003cem\u003eFiction and Fictionalism\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), and co-author with Michael Tye of \u003cem\u003eSeven Puzzles of Thought and How to Solve Them\u003c\/em\u003e (2012).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44456457961587,"sku":"9780198803348","price":131.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_2a2d1924-cbd5-4ff7-b38e-baeb4594775d.jpg?v=1773750310","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/thinking-about-things-9780198803348","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}