Direct belief : an essay on the semantics, pragmatics, and metaphysics of belief / by Jonathan Berg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Jonathan, 1954-

Series:

Mouton series in pragmatics ; 13.

Mouton series in pragmatics, 1864-6409 ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Belief and doubt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The instability of belief ascriptions (and how not to explain it)

Chapter 2. The pragmatics of substitutivity

Chapter 3. Conceptions, belief, and "inner speech"

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613600745

9781280571145

1280571144

9781614510826

1614510822

OCLC:

794383718