Attitude Problems

An Essay On Linguistic Intensionality

Graeme Forbes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-927494-9 (ISBN)

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Presents an account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as 'want', 'seek', 'imagine', and 'worship'. This work offers a theory of how such verbs work that draws on ideas from natural language semantics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.

Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems. Attitude Problems presents an original account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as 'want', 'seek', 'imagine', and 'worship'. Forbes offers a theory of how such verbs work that draws on ideas from natural language semantics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.

1. Compositionality ; 2. A Brief Guide to Type Theory ; 3. Intensional Transitives ; 4. Propositionalism ; 5. Quantifiers and Characterization ; 6. Unspecificity and Inference ; 7. Verbs of Creation and Depiction ; 8. Substitutivity

Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 209 mm
Gewicht	334 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-927494-0 / 0199274940
ISBN-13	978-0-19-927494-9 / 9780199274949
Zustand	Neuware