CFP: Topoi special issue: Individual Concepts

CFP: INDIVIDUAL CONCEPTS

Call for papers

Individual Concepts: a special issue of Topoi 

Guest edited by Tadeusz Ciecierski (Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw) and Paweł Grabarczyk (Institute of Philosophy, University of Łódź)

In Meaning and Necessity Rudolf Carnap coined the term “individual concept” in order to refer to intensions of singular terms: individual descriptions and individual constants. Since then the proliferation of investigations devoted to singular reference resulted in, among other things, the new theory of reference, re-introduction of Russellian propositions into semantic theories, the birth of various sophisticated versions of descriptivism and the specification of the class of indexical (de se, de hic, de nunc) thoughts. Some of such developments indicated that Carnap's idea was capacious enough to fit the future philosophical debates, others (e.g. the idea of direct reference) opposed the very applicability of the notion of individual concepts in semantics, yet others suggested the possibility of replacing the abstract notion of individualconcept with that of singular mental representation. Papers are invited that address not only various aspects of such developments, but also general questions regarding the unity of mental and linguistic content and the applicability of semantic concepts outside the field of semantics (e.g. in the theory of mental content) as well the issue of the relation between fictional, empty and singular representations.

CONFIRMED INVITED CONTRIBUTORS:

TAMARA DOBLER (University of Amsterdam)

MARIA DE PONTE (University of Seville)

VILIUS DRANSEIKA (Vilnius University)

DIRK FRANKEN (University of Marburg)

FREDRIK HARALDSEN (Slovak Academy of Sciences)

THOMAS HODGSON (University College Dublin)

MINYAO HUANG (University of Cambridge)

KATARZYNA KIJANIA-PLACEK (Jagiellonian University)

KEPA KORTA (University of the Basque Country)

GENOVEVA MARTI (ICREA and Universitat de Barcelona)

ANDREI MOLDOVAN (University of Salamanca)

VICTOR VERDEJO (University College London)

ZSOFIA ZVOLENSZKY (Slovak Academy of Sciences & ELTE, Budapest)

POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE:

- Individual concepts, individual intensions and individual representations,
- Uses of individual expressions (referential, attributive, descriptive, fictional etc.),
- Proper names and descriptions,
- Complex demonstratives,
-  Demonstrative and indexical concepts,
- Singular reference,
- Singular thoughts,
- Singular propositions,
- De dicto, de re and de se attitudes and attitude ascriptions,

- Fictional names and proper names in fiction,
- Object-dependent thoughts.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

In order to submit the paper one is kindly asked to visit the Topoi editorial manger website:

https://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/default.aspx

and, after login in, select "S.I. Individual concepts in language and thought (Ciecierski/Grabarczyk)" in the scroll-down "Article Type" menu.

The deadline for the submissions is the 30th of June 2017.

Instructions for authors are available here:

http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245

Tadeusz Ciecierski & Paweł Grabarczyk