Direct belief [[electronic resource] ] : an essay on the semantics, pragmatics, and metaphysics of belief / / by Jonathan Berg

• Autore: Berg Jonathan <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• Disciplina: 401/.45
• Soggetto topico: Pragmatics; Semantics (Philosophy); Language and languages - Philosophy; Belief and doubt
• Soggetto non controllato: Gricean Maxims; Philosophy of Language; Semantics and Pragmatics
• Classificazione: ER 940
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The instability of belief ascriptions (and how not to explain it) -- Chapter 2. The pragmatics of substitutivity -- Chapter 3. Conceptions, belief, and "inner speech" -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Jonathan Berg argues for the Theory of Direct Belief, which treats having a belief about an individual as an unmediated relation between the believer and the individual the belief is about. After a critical review of alternative positions, Berg uses Grice's theory of conversational implicature to provide a detailed pragmatic account of substitution failure in belief ascriptions and goes on to defend this view against objections, including those based on an unwarranted ""Inner Speech"" Picture of Thought. The work serves as a case study in pragmatic explanation, dealing also with methodological
• Titolo autorizzato: Direct belief
• ISBN: 1-280-57114-4; 9786613600745; 1-61451-082-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779188503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mouton series in pragmatics ; ; 13.