Perception, Realism, and the Problem of Reference.

Cover; PERCEPTION, REALISM, AND THE PROBLEM OF REFERENCE; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; CHAPTER 1: Reference, perception, and realism; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 2: Towards an (improved) interdisciplinary investigation of demonstrative reference; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 PERCEPTION, VISION, SPACE, AND GESTALT PRINCIPLES; 2.1 Location vs. gobjects; 2.2 Vision vs. multimodal perception; 2.3 Location vs. objects; 2.4 Discussion; 3 EXOPHORIC DEMONSTRATIVE REFERENCE AND GOBJECTS; 4 TOWARDS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF DEMONSTRATIVE REFERENCE; 4.1 The control profile.

4.2 Proximal and distal in exophoric anaphora, in physical-control situations4.3 Proximal and distal in exophoric anaphora, in perceptual and social-control situations; 4.4 Endophoric anaphora; 4.5 Control and core demonstrative semantics; 4.6 Discussion and comparison with other approaches; 5 GENERAL DISCUSSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 3: Visual demonstratives; I INTRODUCTION; II THREE IDEAS OF THE TARGET; III PROPERLY VISUAL IDEAS; IV EGOCENTRIC VISUAL IDEAS; V VISUAL OBJECTS; VI VISUAL REFERENCE; VII INDEXICALITY; VIII DISJUNCTIVISM; IX CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.

CHAPTER 4: Losing grip on the world: from illusion to sense-data1 THE DEBATE; 2 ACQUAINTANCE AT A GLANCE; 3 AMBIGUITY; 4 PERCEPTUAL ILLUSIONS AND AMBIGUITY; 5 REVISITING ACQUAINTANCE; 5.1 In support of intentionalism; 5.2 In support of sense-datum theory; 6 WHERE'S THE FIRE? (THE ARGUMENT FROM ILLUSION); 7 THE ARGUMENTS FROM PERCEPTUAL RELATIVITY AND FROM ILLUSION; 8 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 5: Perceiving the intended model; 1 TRADING ON IDENTITY; 2 FUNCTIONALISM; 3 DUMMETT'S OBJECTIONS TO THE IDEA OF 'GRASP OF THE INTENDED MODEL'; 4 KEEPING TRACK; 5 THE EPISTEMIC ROLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

REFERENCESCHAPTER 6: Individuation, reference, and sortal terms; 1 SORTAL, CATEGORIAL, AND TRANSCATEGORIAL TERMS; 2 CRITERIA OF IDENTITY AND SORTAL PERSISTENCE CONDITIONS; 3 TWO NOTIONS OF INDIVIDUATION; 4 OBJECT PERCEPTION AND SINGULAR THOUGHT; 5 CATEGORIALISM AND LINGUISTIC REFERENCE; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 7: Action, perception, and reference; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ALTERNATIVES OLD AND NEW; GIBSON AND ACTIVE PERCEPTION; COGNITIVE GRAMMARS; CONCLUSION: ACTIVITY, REFERENCE, AND REALISM; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 8: Personal and semantic reference; TWO SUBJECTS OF REFERENCE; THE ISSUES; P-REFERENCE REDUX.

WHERE NORMAL P-REFERENCE WORKS BESTFALLOUT; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 9: Reference from a behaviorist point of view; INTRODUCTION: THE SEMANTIC NATURALISM OF DEWEY AND QUINE; AN OUTLINE OF SKINNERIAN OPERANT THEORY; SKINNER ON VERBAL BEHAVIOR; TACTING AS A SURROGATE FOR REFERRING; FURTHER CONSEQUENCES OF THE TACT AS A BEHAVIORAL SURROGATE FOR REFERENCE; CONCLUSION: DIDN'T CHOMSKY PROVE SKINNER JUST PLAIN WRONG?; REFERENCES; CHAPTER 10: Causal descriptivism and the reference of theoretical terms; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE SWING OF THE PENDULUM I: DESCRIPTIVIST THEORIES OF REFERENCE.

3 the swing of the pendulum ii: causal theories of reference.

The chapters in the book address the problem of reference as it relates to perception and to debates about realism.

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