Attitude Problems
An Essay On Linguistic Intensionality
Published on 29. June 2006
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-19-927494-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-927494-9 (9780199274949)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
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