Attitudes and Changing Contexts
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: March 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781402041761
Subjects: Language teaching & learning material & coursework; Semantics (meaning); Language Arts & Disciplines; Philosophy; Language; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; General; Semantics; Conditionals and belief change; Dynamic Semantics; Philosophy / General; Presupposition; Propositional attitudes; Reference; Pragmatics
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. "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
Notes: Synthese Library