Overview

Context and the Attitudes collects thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard on semantics and propositional attitudes. These essays develop a nuanced account of the semantics and pragmatics of our talk about such attitudes, an account on which in saying what someone thinks, we offer our words as a 'translation' or representation of the way the target of our talk represents the world. A broad range of topics in philosophical semantics and the philosophy of mind are discussed in detail, including: contextual sensitivity; pretense and semantics; negative existentials; fictional discourse; the nature of quantification; the role of Fregean sense in semantics; 'direct reference' semantics; de re belief and the contingent a priori; belief de se; intensional transitives; the cognitive role of tense; and the prospects for giving a semantics for the attitudes without recourse to properties or possible worlds. Richard's extensive, newly written introduction gives an overview of the essays. The introduction also discusses attitudes realized by dispositions and other non-linguistic cognitive structures, as well as the debate between those who think that mental and linguistic content is structured like the sentences that express it, and those who see content as essentially unstructured.

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Author:   Mark Richard (Harvard University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780199557943

ISBN 10:   0199557942
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   12 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction: Mental States and Their Ascription 2: Direct Reference and Ascriptions of Belief 3: Quantification and Leibniz's Law 4: Attitude Ascriptions, Semantic Theory, and Pragmatic Evidence 5: How I Say What You Think 6: Attitudes and Context 7: Defective Contexts, Accommodation, and Normalization 8: Propositional Quantification 9: Sense, Necessity, and Belief 10: Semantic Pretense 11: Intensional Transitives and Empty Terms 12: Objects of Relief 13: Meaning and Attitude Ascriptions 14: Kripke's Puzzle 1: Introduction: Mental States and Their Ascription 2: Direct Reference and Ascriptions of Belief 3: Quantification and Leibniz's Law 4: Attitude Ascriptions, Semantic Theory, and Pragmatic Evidence 5: How I Say What You Think 6: Attitudes and Context 7: Defective Contexts, Accommodation, and Normalization 8: Propositional Quantification 9: Sense, Necessity, and Belief 10: Semantic Pretense 11: Intensional Transitives and Empty Terms 12: Objects of Relief 13: Meaning and Attitude Ascriptions 14: Kripke's Puzzle

Reviews

Richard's book is a valuable collection that should be of interest not only to those interested in the semantics of attitude ascriptions, but to any philosopher of language. Most of the essays are written in a clear and engaging style, and even though the first one dates from more than thirty years ago, none of them is outdated. * Isidora Stojanovic, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

Richard's book is a valuable collection that should be of interest not only to those interested in the semantics of attitude ascriptions, but to any philosopher of language. Most of the essays are written in a clear and engaging style, and even though the first one dates from more than thirty years ago, none of them is outdated. Isidora Stojanovic, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

`Richard's book is a valuable collection that should be of interest not only to those interested in the semantics of attitude ascriptions, but to any philosopher of language. Most of the essays are written in a clear and engaging style, and even though the first one dates from more than thirty years ago, none of them is outdated.' Isidora Stojanovic, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Author Information

Mark Richard is a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of Propositional Attitudes (CUP, 1990), When Truth Gives Out (OUP, 2008), and the editor of Meaning (Blackwell, 2002).

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