Aboutness

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Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to o

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"This is an important and far-reaching book that philosophers will be discussing for a long time. There are doctoral dissertations, articles, and books to write exploring the possibilities and limitations of [Yablo's] approach."--Adam Morton, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Stephen Yablo is professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of "Things: Papers on Objects, Events, and Properties" and "Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality".