Attitude Problems: An Essay on Linguistic Intensionality

by Graeme Forbes

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199274949
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/14/2006
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 5.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

The University of Colorado, Boulder

Table of Contents

1. Compositionality2. A Brief Guide to Type Theory3. Intensional Transitives4. Propositionalism5. Quantifiers and Characterization6. Unspecificity and Inference7. Verbs of Creation and Depiction8. Substitutivity