Thought-Contents: On the Ontology of Belief and the Semantics of Belief Attribution (Philosophical Studies, #104)

by Steven E. Boer

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This book provides a formal ontology of senses and the belief-relation that grounds the distinction between de dicto, de re, and de se beliefs as well as the opacity of belief reports. According to this ontology, the relata of the belief-relation are an agent and a special sort of object-dependent sense (a "thought-content"), the latter being an "abstract" property encoding various syntactic and semantic constraints on sentences of a language of thought.

  • ISBN10 1402050852
  • ISBN13 9781402050855
  • Publish Date December 2007 (first published 8 December 2006)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Edition New ed.
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 387
  • Language English