Mental Files, Blown Up by Indexed Files

Indexed Files

Mental Files: Replies to my Critics

‘[An] aspect of Recanati’s proposal that is not entirely clear is its precise scope. For we are told that mental files are mental indexicals which depend, for their existence, on there being an epistemically rewarding relation, in the form of acquaintance, between a subject and the object the file is a file of. On the face of it, however, this would entail that mental files are quite limited, f...

The Cognitive Significance of Mental Files

As one of the major figures in the philosophy of language and mind during a quarter of a century, François Recanati has contributed to speech act theory, the theory of meaning and truth conditions, the theory of primary pragmatic processes, to direct reference theory, and to the accounts of indirect discourse, quotation, definite descriptions, perspectival thought, and more. The topic of the ne...

A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification

I suggest that we can think of delusional misidentification in terms of systematic errors in the management of mental files. I begin by sketching the orthodox "bottom-up" aetiology of delusional misidentification. I suggest that the orthodox aetiology can be given a descriptivist or a singularist interpretation. I present three cases that a descriptivist interpretation needs to account for. I t...

Analyzing registry, log files, and prefetch files in finding digital evidence in graphic design applications

The products of graphic design applications leave behind traces of digital information which can be used during a digital forensic investigation in cases where counterfeit documents have been created. This paper analyzes the digital forensics involved in the creation of counterfeit documents. This is achieved by first recognizing the digital forensic artifacts left behind from the use of graphi...