creators_name: Chalmers, David J.
type: preprint
datestamp: 1998-06-15
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:49
metadata_visibility: show
title: The Components of Content
ispublished: unpub
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: content, two-dimensional, narrow content, internalism, externalism, belief, indexical, possible worlds, Frege, Kripke, Putnam, sense, reference, intenionality, intension.
abstract: This paper addresses some tricky issues in the area where the philosophy of mind meets the philosophy of language. In it I develop a two-dimensional account of the contents of thought, decomposing content into notional and relational content, both of which are propositional and truth-conditional. Notional content is generally internal to a cognitive system, and governs rational relations between thoughts, so it can play the role of "narrow" or "cognitive" content. I apply this framework to a number of puzzles (Frege's puzzle, Kripke's puzzle, the problem of the essential indexical, the mode-of-presentation problem, etc.) in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language
date: 1994
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Chalmers, David J.  (1994) The Components of Content.  [Preprint]    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/321/1/content.html