Thought-contents : on the ontology of belief and the semantics of belief attribution /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Boër, Steven E.
Imprint:	Dordrecht : Springer, 2007.
Description:	xviii, 374 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Philosophical studies series ; v. 104
Subject:	Belief and doubt. Belief and doubt.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6243726

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Varying Form of Title:	On the ontology of belief and the semantics of belief attribution
ISBN:	9781402050848 (hbk.) 1402050844 (hbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-361) and index.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I. Preliminaries
1. Terms of the art
2. Adequacy conditions and failed theories
Pt. II. Ontology
3. Logical forms and mental representations : the lesson of Russell's multiple relation theory of judgment
4. Thought-contents, senses, and the belief relation : the proto-theory
5. Thought-contents, senses, and the belief relation : the full theory
Pt. III. Semantics
6. Belief reports and compositional semantics
7. Meeting the semantical adequacy conditions
8. Objections and replies
Pt. IV. Rear-guard action
9. The case for object-dependent thoughts
10. A critique of rival accounts of singular thoughts.

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