Attitudes and Changing Contexts

• Main Author: Van Rooij, Robert (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Synthese Library ; 332
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Semantics.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Language.

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 represent...

Table of Contents:

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