| Attitudes and Changing Contexts 2006 Edition Contributor(s): Van Rooij, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1402041764 ISBN-13: 9781402041761 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics |
| Dewey: 306.44 |
| LCCN: 2006482583 |
| Series: Synthese Library (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.58" W x 9.52" (1.36 lbs) 273 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
