title: The Components of Content
creator: Chalmers, David J.
subject: Philosophy of Language
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: 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
type: Preprint
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/321/1/content.html
identifier:   Chalmers, David J.  (1994) The Components of Content.  [Preprint]    (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/321/