Attitudes and Changing Contexts
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 fo
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ATTITUDES AND CHANGING CONTEXTS
ATTITUDES AND CHANGING CONTEXTS
SYNTHESE LIBRARY STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editor-in-Chief:
VINCENT F. HENDRICKS, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark JOHN SYMONS, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Honorary Editor: JAAKKO HINTIKKA, Boston University, U.S.A.
Editors: DIRK VAN DALEN, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands THEO A.F. KUIPERS, University of Groningen, The Netherlands TEDDY SEIDENFELD, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A. PATRICK SUPPES, Stanford University, California, U.S.A. JAN WOLEN´SKI, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
VOLUME 332
ATTITUDES AND CHANGING CONTEXTS By
ROBERT VAN ROOIJ University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
1-4020-4176-4 (HB) 978-1-4020-4176-1 (HB) 1-4020-4177-2 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4177-8 (e-book)
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To my parents
Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XI Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Content, belief and belief attributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Possible world semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 The description theory of reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 The description theory of reference and externalism . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 The pragmatic account of intentionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6 Intentionality: the causal/informational account . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.7 Combining the pragmatic and causal accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 Context dependence: two-dimensional semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.9 Solving problems by diagonalisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10 Self-locating beliefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10.1 The problem of self-locating beliefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10.2 Fine grained possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.10.3 Stalnaker’s solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.11 Belief, and de dicto belief at
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