Context and the Attitudes

Context and the Attitudes
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9780191632884
ISBN-13 : 0191632880
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Book Synopsis Context and the Attitudes by : Mark Richard

Download or read book Context and the Attitudes written by Mark Richard and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Context and the Attitudes collects thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard on semantics and propositional attitudes. These essays develop a nuanced account of the semantics and pragmatics of our talk about such attitudes, an account on which in saying what someone thinks, we offer our words as a 'translation' or representation of the way the target of our talk represents the world. A broad range of topics in philosophical semantics and the philosophy of mind are discussed in detail, including: contextual sensitivity; pretense and semantics; negative existentials; fictional discourse; the nature of quantification; the role of Fregean sense in semantics; 'direct reference' semantics; de re belief and the contingent a priori; belief de se; intensional transitives; the cognitive role of tense; and the prospects for giving a semantics for the attitudes without recourse to properties or possible worlds. Richard's extensive, newly written introduction gives an overview of the essays. The introduction also discusses attitudes realized by dispositions and other non-linguistic cognitive structures, as well as the debate between those who think that mental and linguistic content is structured like the sentences that express it, and those who see content as essentially unstructured.


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