About Concerns

Abstract

This paper is a sympathetic and critical discussion of the views about mental and linguistic content put forward by François Recanati in his book Perspectival Thought (2007a). I begin in the first section by outlining Recanati’s account and his arguments for it. In the second section, I articulate some questions and criticisms: I propose some complementary arguments, attempt to relate Recanati’s notion of a “lekton” to his earlier notion of “what is said”, and put forward some objections against Recanati’s account of epistemic modals and predicates of personal taste.