Overview
- Offers a uniform analysis of propositional attitudes, pronouns, and presuppositions
- Shows the relevance of the philosophical theory of reference for semantics of natural language, and the relevance of the theory of belief revision for analysis of conditionals and propositional attitudes
- Demonstrates the importance of modern semantic theories of indefinites and anaphora for the theory of reference
Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 332)
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About this book
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.
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(Robert Stalnaker, MIT)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Attitudes and Changing Contexts
Authors: Robert Van Rooij
Series Title: Synthese Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4177-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4176-1Published: 18 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7061-6Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4177-8Published: 30 March 2006
Series ISSN: 0166-6991
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 273
Topics: Philosophy, general, Semantics, Philosophy of Language