Telling what she thinks : semantics and pragmatics of propositional attitude reports / Tomoo Ueda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ueda, Tomoo, author.

Series:

Deutsche Hochschulschriften. Epistemische Studien ; Band 33.

Epistemische Studien, 2198-1884 ; Band 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Propositional attitudes.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Frege’s puzzle concerning belief reports has been in the middle of the discussion on semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: The intuition behind the opacity does not seem to be consistent with the thesis of semantic innocence according to which the semantic value of proper names is nothing but their referent. Main tasks of this book include providing truth-conditional content of belief reports. Especially, the focus is on semantic values of proper names. The key aim is to extend Crimmins’s basic idea of semantic pretense and the introduction of pleonastic entities proposed by Schiffer. They enable us to capture Frege’s puzzle in the analysis without giving up semantic innocence. To reach this conclusion, two issues are established. First, based on linguistic evidence, the frame of belief reports functions adverbially rather than relationally. Second, the belief ascriptions, on which each belief report is made, must be analyzed in terms of the measurement-theoretic analogy.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

List of abbreviations

1. The central problems

2. Structured propositionalism and its shared assumptions

3. Indirectness of speech and role of deixis

4. Metaphysical status of propositional attitudes

5. Communicative framework and discursive opacity

6. Opacity as a feature of the frame

7. Adverbial account of the frame

8. The VarCA Analysis

9. Consequences of the opaque VarCA

10. Conclusion

List of sentences

Bibliography

Source of linguistic data

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 22, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110429596

3110429594

9783110429701

3110429705

OCLC:

979589813