Publication

2006-03-08 - Springer

Language

English

Word Count

68,250 words, Guess

Page Count

273 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2006482583
  • Goodreads1863329
  • LibraryThing6962511

Classifications

  • LCCP99.4.P72 V36 2006

Description

In this book, the author defends a unified externalists account of propositional attitudes and reference, and formalizes this view within possible world semantics. He establishes a link between philosophical analyses of intentionality and reference and formal semantic theories of discourse representation and context change. Stalnakerian diagonalization plays an important role here. Anaphora are treated as referential expressions, while presupposition is seen as a propositional attitude. The relation between belief change and the semantic analyses of conditional sentences and evidential (knowledge) and buletic (desire) propositional attitudes is discussed extensively. "Van Rooij has new and interesting things to say both about foundational issues in the philosophy of language, and about the details of specific analyses, f.e. about intensional identity, epistemic modals, propositional attitude attributions, presupposition accommodation, conditionals and belief change." Robert Stalnaker, MIT

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Other Editions

  • Attitudes and Changing ContextsHardcoverSpringer2006-03-08

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