?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Problem+of+Cognitive+Dynamics&rft.creator=Branquinho%2C+Joao&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=This+paper+is+devoted+to+an+examination+of+some+aspects+of+the+central+issue+of+Cognitive+Dynamics%2C+the+issue+about+the+conditions+under+which+intentional+mental+states+may+persist+over+time.+I+discuss+two+main+sorts+of+approach+to+the+topic%3A+the+directly+referential+approach%2C+which+I+take+as+best+represented+in+David+Kaplan%C2%92s+views%2C+and+the+neo-Fregean+approach%2C+which+I+take+as+best+represented+in+Gareth+Evans%C2%92s+views.+The+upshot+of+my+discussion+is+twofold.+On+the+one+hand%2C+I+argue+that+both+Kaplan%C2%92s+account+and+Evans%C2%92s+account+are+on+the+whole+defective+(for+different+sorts+of+reason%2C+of+course)%3B+even+though+there+are+features+of+each+of+those+views+which+seem+to+me+to+be+along+the+right+lines.+On+the+other%2C+and+in+spite+of+that%2C+I+claim+that+a+broadly+Fregean+theory+is+still+to+be+preferred+since+by+positing+semantically+efficacious+modes+of+presentation+it+is+clearly+better+equipped+to+deal+adequately+with+some+important+phenomena+in+the+area.+In+particular%2C+I+argue+that+the+notion+of+a+memory-based+demonstrative+mode+of+presentation+of+an+object+(a+spatio-temporal+particular%2C+a+region+in+space%2C+a+period+of+time%2C+etc.)+turns+out+to+be+indispensable+for+the+purpose+of+accounting+for+the+persistence+of+an+important+range+of+mental+states+with+propositional+content+over+time.&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F401%2F1%2FCog.htm&rft.identifier=++Branquinho%2C+Joao++(1999)+The+Problem+of+Cognitive+Dynamics.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F401%2F