Thought-Contents On the Ontology of Belief and the Semantics of Belief Attribution /

Thought-Contents On the Ontology of Belief and the Semantics of Belief Attribution /

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This book provides a formal ontology of senses and the belief-relation that grounds the distinction between de dicto, de re, and de se beliefs as well as the opacity of belief reports. According to this ontology, the relata of the belief-relation are an agent and a special sort of object-dependent s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boër, Steven E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
Series:Philosophical Studies Series ; 104
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Ontology.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Semantics.
Philosophy of Language.
Philosophy, general.
Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries
  • Terms of the Art
  • Adequacy Conditions and Failed Theories
  • Ontology
  • Logical Forms and Mental Representations: The Lesson Russell's Multiple Relation Theory of Judgment
  • Thought-Contents, Senses, and the Belief Relation: the Proto-Theory
  • Thought-Contents, Senses, and the Belief Relation: the Full Theory
  • Semantics
  • Belief Reports and Compositional Semantics
  • Meeting the Semantical Adequacy Conditions
  • Objections and Replies
  • Rear-Guard Action
  • The Case for Object-Dependent Thoughts
  • A Critique of Rival Accounts of Singular Thoughts.

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