Moderate relativism
The framework
The distribution of content
Radical vs. moderate relativism
Two levels of content
Branch points for moderate relativism
The debate over temporalism (1) : do we need temporal propositions?
Modal vs. extensional treatments of tense
What is at stake?
Modal and temporal innocence
Temporal operators and temporal propositions in an extensional framework
The debate over temporalism (2) : can we believe temporal propositions?
An epistemic argument against temporalism
Rebutting Richard's argument
Relativistic disagreement
Relativization and indexicality
Index, context, and content
The two-stage picture : Lewis vs. Kaplan and Stalnaker
Rescuing the two-stage picture
Content, character, and cognitive significance
Experience and subjectivity
Content and mode
Duality and the fallacy of misplaced information
The content of perceptual judgements
Episodic memory
Immunity to error through misidentification
Implicit self-reference
Weak and strong immunity
Quasi-perception and quasi-memory
Reflexive states
Relativization and reflexivity
The (alleged) reflexivity of de se thoughts
Reflexivity : internal or external?
What is wrong with reflexivism
The first person point of view
De se thoughts and subjectivity
Memory and the imagination
Imagination and the self
Imagination, empathy, and the quasi-de se
Egocentricity and beyond
Unarticulated constituents in the lekton?
The context-dependence of the lekton : how far can we go?
Unarticulatedness and the concerning relation
Three (alleged) arguments for the externality principle
Invariance
Self-relative thoughts
The problem of the essential indexical
Perry against relativized propositions
Context-relativity
Implicit and explicit de se thoughts
Shiftability
The generalized reflexive constraint
Parametric invariance and m-shiftability
Free shiftability
The anaphoric mode : a buhlerian perspective.
Perspectival thought : a plea for moderate relativism by François Récanati. ISBN 9780199230549. Published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.