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- Provides a novel formal ontology of thought-contents which integrates the Chisholm-Lewis thesis that belief is a relation to properties with Fodor’s thesis that thinking transpires in a language of thought
- Constructs a compositional formal semantics that handles reports of arbitrarily complex beliefs
- Solves standard puzzles about belief attributions in an intuitively satisfying way
- Avoids the difficulties encountered by most if not all extant accounts that accept opacity as a genuine semantic datum
- Offers the only account in the literature of how to understand Russell’s account of logical forms in a way that vindicates his Multiple Relation theory of de re belief
Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 104)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminaries
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Front Matter
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Rear-Guard Action
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Steven E. Boër
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thought-Contents
Book Subtitle: On the Ontology of Belief and the Semantics of Belief Attribution
Authors: Steven E. Boër
Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5085-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5084-8Published: 08 December 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7280-1Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5085-5Published: 23 November 2006
Series ISSN: 0921-8599
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 380
Topics: Ontology, Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Philosophy, general