Description

Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems. Attitude Problems presents an original account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as "want," "seek," "imagine," and "worship." Forbes offers a theory of how such verbs work that draws on ideas from natural language semantics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.

Features

• Original work at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, and logic
• Synthesizes and advances the work of an established and well-respected expert in the field of linguistic intensionaility
• Forbes uses the most advanced resources in contemporary philosophical logic
• Begins with an illuminating taxonomy of so-called intensional transitive verbs

Product Details

206 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-927494-9ISBN10: 0-19-927494-0

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