Fregean Particularism

Abstract In this chapter, Susanna Schellenberg develops a new understanding of singular modes of presentation. According to Fregean Particularism, singular modes of presentation are generated by the mental capacities employed that bring about the relevant mental state and the objects or features in the world (if any) thereby singled out. Consequently, modes of presentation can be individuated at the level of content types and token contents. Content types are individuated by the capacities employed. Content tokens are individuated by the capacities employed and the mind-independent particular thereby singled out. Applied to perception, the view holds that perceptions, hallucinations, and illusions with the same phenomenal character are constituted by employing the same perceptual capacities; they thereby share a content type. But the token content of perception, hallucination, and illusion differs at least in part.