Theories of Intensionality A Critical Survey
This book offers a comprehensive primer for the study of intensionality. It explores and assesses those key theories of intensionality which have been developed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each of the examined theories i
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Theories of Intensionality A Critical Survey
Theories of Intensionality
David Parsons
Theories of Intensionality A Critical Survey
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David Parsons The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-2482-5 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2484-9
ISBN 978-981-10-2484-9
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In memory of Custard and Coco
Preface
Locutions involving the propositional attitudes (e.g., ‘Smith believes that…’) or modal terms (e.g., ‘It is necessary that…’) have long been recognised as creating contexts which appear to violate several standard logical principles. However, it was only with the development of formal logical systems in the early part of the twentieth century that a rigorous and systematic investigation of these problems was possible. Since then, various intensional logics, along with several rival approaches, have been created with a view to explaining these difficulties. It is the aim of this book to explore and evaluate those accounts which (I believe) have played a central role in attempting to deal with the said difficulties. In part, it is my hope that this work may be taken as something of a primer for the study of intensionality; the sort of primer which appears to have not been available up until now. However, the following work also sets out to be both critical and constructive. Each theory of intensionality which is discussed is done so from a critical point of view, while I also present what I take to be the best means of solving the problems of intensionality. The following is an expanded (and hopefully improved) version of my Ph.D. thesis, entitled Intensional Logics and The
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