Telling What She Thinks: Semantics and pragmatics of propositional attitude reports

187 Pages·2015·1.78 MB·English

by  Tomoo Ueda

Tomoo Ueda
Telling What She Thinks
Epistemische Studien
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Schriften zur Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie

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Michael Esfeld, Stephan Hartmann, Albert Newen
Band 33
Tomoo Ueda
Telling What She
Thinks

Semantics and pragmatics of propositional attitude
reports
ISBN 978-3-11-043880-2
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ISSN 2198-1884

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Contents
ListofFigures|XI
ListofTables|XII
Acknowledgments|XIII
Listofabbreviations|XV
PartI: Introduction
1 Thecentralproblems|3
1.1 Thestorytobetold|3
1.2 Propositionalattitudesandtheirattributions|3
1.3 Typeofattitudereportsconcerned|4
1.4 Opacityandcontentsofbeliefreports|6
1.5 Thestrategyoftheproject|8
PartII: Stateofresearch
2 Structuredpropositionalismanditssharedassumptions|13
2.1 Frege’spuzzle|13
2.2 Twotypesofsolutionsfromstructuredpropositionalism|16
2.2.1 Frege’ssolutions|16
2.2.2 Milliantransparency|19
2.3 Commonacceptanceoftheassumptions|24
2.3.1 Eigennameview|24
2.3.2 RelationAccount|25
2.4 Summary|27
3 Indirectnessofspeechandroleofdeixis|28
3.1 ThecrosslingualnatureofEigennameview|28
3.2 EvidenceandargumentsagainsttheEigennameview|32
3.2.1 ContentclauseisnotanNP|32
3.2.2 Syntacticdistinctionbetweendirectandindirectdiscourses|36
3.2.3 Summary|38
VIII | Contents
3.3 Contentclauseasanadjunct|39
3.3.1 IstheJapanesecontentclauseadverbialcomplement?|39
3.3.2 Difficulties|42
3.4 Contentclauseasamainclause|43
3.4.1 Deixisandindirectnessofdiscourse|43
3.4.2 Hypothesisoftheadjunctframe|48
3.5 Summary|49
4 Metaphysicalstatusofpropositionalattitudes|50
4.1 Identityaccountanddoubledutiesofabstractcontent|51
4.1.1 Contentasanabstractandpublicentity|51
4.1.2 Graspingabstractentities|52
4.1.3 Incompatibilityofduties|53
4.2 Isomorphismandtheproblemofreadingback|54
4.2.1 TheLanguageofThoughthypothesis|55
4.2.2 Independenceofthedomains|56
4.2.3 Problemsofreadingback|57
4.3 Accountofpropositionalattitudeswithoutreadingback|59
4.4 DeficitsofIUFs:Evaluationofthemeasurement-theoretic
account|63
4.4.1 Idiolectalconclusion|64
4.4.2 Maximalelaborationandpragmaticnatureofthelinguistic
domain|64
4.4.3 Recap:Natureoftherepresentationdomain|66
4.5 Hypothesis|66
PartIII: Communicationalapproach
5 Communicativeframeworkanddiscursiveopacity|69
5.1 Thecontextofcontentdetermination|69
5.2 Pragmaticcontentdetermination|70
5.3 Opacityinthepragmaticanalysis|74
5.3.1 Redefiningtheopacity|75
5.3.2 Contextsforcontentdeterminationandtruthevaluation|76
5.4 Summary|76
6 Opacityasafeatureoftheframe|78
6.1 Theopaqueframehypothesis|78
6.2 Thehiddenindexicaltheory|80
Contents | IX
6.3 Paratacticaccount|82
6.3.1 Davidson’sanalysis|83
6.3.2 Twoproblemsoftheparatacticaccount|84
6.3.3 Recap|87
6.4 Summary|88
7 Adverbialaccountoftheframe|89
7.1 Linguisticsupportsfortheadverbialaccount|89
7.2 Austiniansemanticsontransparency|92
7.3 Analysisoftransparentbeliefreports|95
7.4 Analyzingtheopacity|97
7.4.1 Recanationopacity|98
7.4.2 Unstablecontexts|101
7.4.3 Recap|102
7.5 DifficultiesofRecanati’saccount|102
7.5.1 Transparencyandstabilityofcontext|103
7.5.2 Mixedoccurrencesofsingularterms|103
7.5.3 Epistemicstateandcontentdetermination|104
7.6 Summary|105
PartIV: TheVarCAanalysis
8 TheVarCAAnalysis|109
8.1 Twofociinreportingbeliefs:Reexaminingtheexample|109
8.2 TwotypesofVarCAs|112
8.2.1 TwodistinctVarCAs|113
8.2.2 TheVarCAanalysisfortransparentbeliefreports|117
8.2.3 TheVarCAanalysisforopaquebeliefreports|120
8.3 Summary|125
9 ConsequencesoftheopaqueVarCA|127
9.1 Coreferenceofpropernames|127
9.2 Samenessofaname|130
9.3 Discursiveopacity|131
9.4 Mixedbeliefreportsanddefaulttransparency|133
9.5 Ontologicalhyperinflation|135
9.6 Summary|137