Attitudes and Changing Contexts
Robert Van Rooij
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Description for Attitudes and Changing Contexts
Paperback. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160. Weight in Grams: 481.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Series
Synthese Library
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048170616
SKU
V9789048170616
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Reviews for Attitudes and Changing Contexts
"Van Rooij has new and interesting things to say both about foundational issues in the philosophy of language, and about the details of specific analyses, f.e. about intensional identity, epistemic modals, propositional attitude attributions, presupposition accommodation, conditionals and belief change." (Robert Stalnaker, MIT)