Steven E. Boër
Springer Netherlands
0e druk, 2010
9789048172801
Thought-Contents
On the Ontology of Belief and the Semantics of Belief Attribution
Specificaties
Paperback, 380 blz.
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Engels
Springer Netherlands |
0e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9789048172801
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
ISBN13:9789048172801
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:380
Uitgever:Springer Netherlands
Druk:0
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.
