TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Rooij,Robert
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Attitudes and Changing Contexts
T2  - Synthese Library
SN  - 9781402041778
AV  - B1-5802 
U1  - 100 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Philosophy, general
KW  - Philosophy of Language
N1  - Content, belief and belief attributions -- Referential and Descriptive Pronouns -- Intentional Identity -- Presupposition Satisfaction -- Conditionals and belief change -- Some other attitudes
N2  - In this book, the author defends a unified externalists account of propositional attitudes and reference, and formalizes this view within possible world semantics. He establishes a link between philosophical analyses of intentionality and reference and formal semantic theories of discourse representation and context change. Stalnakerian diagonalization plays an important role here. Anaphora are treated as referential expressions, while presupposition is seen as a propositional attitude. The relation between belief change and the semantic analyses of conditional sentences and evidential (knowledge) and buletic (desire) propositional attitudes is discussed extensively. "Van Rooij has new and interesting things to say both about foundational issues in the philosophy of language, and about the details of specific analyses, f.e. about intensional identity, epistemic modals, propositional attitude attributions, presupposition accommodation, conditionals and belief change." Robert Stalnaker, MIT
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4177-2
ER  -