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Propositional or non-propositional attitudes?
- Source :
- Crawford, S 2014, ' Propositional or non-propositional attitudes? ', Philosophical Studies, vol. 168, no. 1, pp. 179-210 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-013-0126-6
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013.
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Abstract
- Propositionalism is the view that intentional attitudes, such as belief, are relations to propositions. Propositionalists argue that propositionalism follows from the intuitive validity of certain kinds of inferences involving attitude reports. Jubien (Philos Stud 104(1):47-62, 2001) argues powerfully against propositions and sketches some interesting positive proposals, based on Russell's multiple relation theory of judgment, about how to accommodate "propositional phenomena" without appeal to propositions. This paper argues that none of Jubien's proposals succeeds in accommodating an important range of propositional phenomena, such as the aforementioned validity of attitude-report inferences. It then shows that the notion of a predication act-type, which remains importantly Russellian in spirit, is sufficient to explain the range of propositional phenomena in question, in particular the validity of attitude-report inferences. The paper concludes by discussing whether predication act-types are really just propositions by another name. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
- Subjects :
- Propositions
Philosophy of mind
Event type
Philosophy
Appeal
Metaphysics
propositions
propositional attitudes
quantifiers
belief
plural quantification
multigrade relation
multiple relation theory of judgement
predication
Michael Jubien
Stephen Schiffer
Bertrand Russell
Tyler Burge
Wayne Davis
Epistemology
Philosophy of language
Range (mathematics)
Predication
TheoryofComputation_MATHEMATICALLOGICANDFORMALLANGUAGES
Quantification
Act-type
Multiple relation
Propositional attitudes
Plural quantification
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730883 and 00318116
- Volume :
- 168
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Philosophical Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4179f02710eb865fad93ede9463597e2