Steven E. Boër
Springer Netherlands
2007e druk, 2006
9781402050848
Thought-Contents
On the Ontology of Belief and the Semantics of Belief Attribution
Specificaties
Gebonden, 380 blz.
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Engels
Springer Netherlands |
2007e druk, 2006
ISBN13: 9781402050848
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Philosophical Studies Series
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Samenvatting
This book provides a formal ontology of senses and the belief-relation that grounds the distinction between de dicto, de re, and de se beliefs as well as the opacity of belief reports. According to this ontology, the relata of the belief-relation are an agent and a special sort of object-dependent sense (a "thought-content"), the latter being an "abstract" property encoding various syntactic and semantic constraints on sentences of a language of thought.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781402050848
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Aantal pagina's:380
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
Druk:2007
Inhoudsopgave
Preliminaries.- Terms of the Art.- Adequacy Conditions and Failed Theories.- Ontology.- Logical Forms and Mental Representations: The Lesson Russell's Multiple Relation Theory of Judgment.- Thought-Contents, Senses, and the Belief Relation: the Proto-Theory.- Thought-Contents, Senses, and the Belief Relation: the Full Theory.- Semantics.- Belief Reports and Compositional Semantics.- Meeting the Semantical Adequacy Conditions.- Objections and Replies.- Rear-Guard Action.- The Case for Object-Dependent Thoughts.- A Critique of Rival Accounts of Singular Thoughts.