Thinking of the Unthinkable as Thought

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/cpsem201912" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/cpsem201912</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/cpsem201912" target="_blank" >10.5840/cpsem201912</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Thinking of the Unthinkable as Thought
Original language description
In "Three Essays on Infinity and God" (1859, W 1: 37-43) as well as some other early writings Peirce presented an account of how something unthinkable could be represented. Understanding representation as a "modification of consciousness" (e.g. 1859, W 1: 42; 1861, W 1: 85; March 1862, W 1: 68), Peirce needed to show how the mind can objectively relate to something which cannot be present in it, i.e. cannot be thought. The aim of my paper is to offer a reconstruction of Peirce's theory of mental representation which generated the problem in the first place. I shall argue that Peirce's early view could be interpreted as a species of representationalism in the statement that the immediate contents of consciousness are representations. But by his insistence on that a representation has, as its source, the object thought-of (1859, W 1: 40), it is a representationalism of a very peculiar kind.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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