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Author Richard, Mark.

Title Context and the attitudes : meaning in context. Volume 1 / by Mark Richard
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Contents Introduction : mental states and their ascription -- Direct reference and ascriptions of belief -- Quantification and Leibniz's law -- Attitude ascriptions, semantic theory, and pragmatic evidence -- How I say what you think -- Attitudes in context -- Defective contexts, accommodation, and normalization -- Propositional quantification -- Sense, necessity, and belief -- Semantic pretense -- Intensional transitives and empty terms -- Objects of relief -- Meaning and attitude ascriptions -- Kripke's puzzle
Summary Thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard develop a nuanced account of semantics and propositional attitudes. The collection addresses a range of topics in philosophical semantics and philosophy of mind, and is accompanied by a new Introduction which discusses attitudes realized by dispositions and other non-linguistic cognitive structures
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Propositional attitudes.
Semantics (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
Propositional attitudes
Semantics (Philosophy)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
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