Belief in Context: Towards a Unified Semantics of De Re and De Se Attitude Reports

Dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen (2006)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

This thesis deals with the phenomenon of attitude reporting. More specifically, it provides a unified semantics of de re and de se belief reports. After arguing that de se belief is best thought of as a special case of de re belief, I examine whether we can extend this unification to the realm of belief reports. I show how, despite very promising first steps, previous attempts in this direction ultimately fail with respect to some relatively recent linguistic data involving quantified and infinitival reports, logophoric constructions, and monstrously shifted indexicals. Formalizing my idea of a contextual resolution of acquaintance relations in a dynamic framework, I arrive at an alternative analysis that handles all these data.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,854

External links

  • This entry has no external links. Add one.
Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

De re and de se in quantified belief reports.Emar Maier - 2005 - In Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente & Erik Schoorlemmer (eds.), Proceedings of Console Xiii. pp. 211-29.
On the roads to de se.Emar Maier - 2011 - Proceedings of Salt 21 (1):393--412.
De Se Reductionism Takes on Monsters.Emar Maier - 2005 - In Emar Maier, Corien Bary & Janneke Huitink (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 9. Nijmegen Centre for Semantics. pp. 197-211.
A Defense of De Re Belief Reports.Marga Reimer - 1995 - Mind and Language 10 (4):446-463.
Singular thoughts and de re attitude reports.James Openshaw - 2018 - Mind and Language 33 (4):415-437.
Attitudes and their attributions.Manidipa Sen - 1996 - Dissertation, St. Andrews
A plea for monsters.Philippe Schlenker - 2002 - Linguistics and Philosophy 26 (1):29-120.

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-06-23

Downloads
86 (#245,604)

6 months
86 (#71,719)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Emar Maier
University of Groningen

Citations of this work

De se attitudes: Ascription and communication.Dilip Ninan - 2010 - Philosophy Compass 5 (7):551-567.
Counterfactual Attitudes and Multi-Centered Worlds.Dilip Ninan - 2012 - Semantics and Pragmatics 5 (5):1-57.
Parasitic attitudes.Emar Maier - 2015 - Linguistics and Philosophy 38 (3):205-236.
Proper names and indexicals trigger rigid presuppositions.Emar Maier - 2009 - Journal of Semantics 26 (3):253-315.

View all 22 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

The Language of Thought.Jerry Fodor - 1975 - Harvard University Press.
Naming and Necessity: Lectures Given to the Princeton University Philosophy Colloquium.Saul A. Kripke - 1980 - Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Edited by Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel.
From a Logical Point of View.Willard Van Orman Quine - 1953 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Knowledge and belief.Jaakko Hintikka - 1962 - Ithaca, N.Y.,: Cornell University Press.
Naming and necessity.Saul Kripke - 2010 - In Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel (eds.), Arguing about language. New York: Routledge. pp. 431-433.

View all 75 references / Add more references