{"product_id":"talking-about","title":"Talking About","description":"Combining new insights from cognitive science and speech act theory, Unnsteinsson develops a compelling theory of singular reference which avoids well-known puzzles and objections. The theory, called Edenic intentionalism, is grounded in a mechanistic perspective on explanation in cognitive science and a new Gricean account of speaker meaning and speaker reference.  Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference  develops an account of the mental state of identity confusion and separates questions about the nature of representational acts and representational states. Unnsteinsson proposes a division of labour, but Edenic intentionalism is strictly a theory of intentional, mind-directed representational acts, taking speech acts as its paradigm case.\n\nTalking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference  argues that mental mechanisms ought to be postulated to explain human cognitive capacities. Pragmatic competence is the capacity to successfully produce utterances with a communicative intention. By examining the characteristic function and malfunction of the mechanism for referential competence, the study shows that confused reference should be understood as a type of malfunction. This is the core thesis of Edenic intentionalism: that the identity confusion disrupts the normal function of the speech act of reference.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54232573018456,"sku":"9780192865137","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780192865137_ed5303d2-564a-4147-b3d9-557307c8aedc.jpg?v=1778551242","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/talking-about","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}