Abstract
Abstract This chapter introduces the main themes and ambitions of the book and gives an overview of the content and organization of subsequent chapters. One of those ambitions is to explain how it is possible, for the vehicles of both language and thought, to be “semantically answerable” to the world—or, equivalently, to have objective representational content. In this chapter the problem, or mystery, of objective representational content is set out in some detail. The proposed explanation (“two-factor referentialism”) is outlined and contrasted with a fundamentally different rival approach. Various concomitant problems to be addressed are also articulated—e.g., concerning the relation between language and thought, the role of causation in the constitution of reference, the place of intentionality in the natural world, and the possibility of meta-cognition.
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