Robert Van Rooij

Attitudes and Changing Contexts

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Synthese Library 332
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-90-481-7061-6
• Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9789048170616
• ISBN-10: 9048170613
• Artikelnr.: 32095414

Inhaltsangabe

Content, belief and belief attributions.- Referential and Descriptive Pronouns.- Intentional Identity.- Presupposition Satisfaction.- Conditionals and belief change.- Some other attitudes.

Rezensionen

"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)