
Direct Belief
An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief
Jonathan Berg(Author)
De Gruyter Mouton (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 16. April 2012
Book
Hardback
X, 157 pages
978-1-61451-090-1 (ISBN)
Description
Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to defend this view against objections, including those based on an unwarranted "Inner Speech" Picture of Thought. The work serves as a case study in pragmatic explanation, dealing also with methodological issues about context-sensitivity in language and the relation between semantics and pragmatics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61451-090-1 (9781614510901)
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E-Book
04/2012
1st Edition
De Gruyter Mouton
€149.95
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Person
Jonathan Berg, University of Haifa, Israel.