LINGUIST List 17.3589
Tue Dec 05 2006
Diss: Philosophy of Lang/Semantics: Maier: 'Belief in Context: Towa...'
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1. Emar
Maier,
Belief in Context: Towards a unified semantics of de re and de se attitude reports
Message 1: Belief in Context: Towards a unified semantics of de re and de se attitude reports
Date: 03-Dec-2006
From: Emar Maier <emar.maiergmail.com>
Subject: Belief in Context: Towards a unified semantics of de re and de se attitude reports
Institution: Radboud University Nijmegen
Program: Department of Philosophy
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2006
Author: Emar Maier
Dissertation Title: Belief in Context: Towards a unified semantics of de re and de se attitude reports
Dissertation URL: http://www.ru.nl/ncs/~emar/diss/
Linguistic Field(s):
Philosophy of Language
Pragmatics
Semantics
Dissertation Director:
Bart Geurts
Rob van der Sandt
Dissertation Abstract:
This thesis deals with the phenomenon of attitude reporting. Morespecifically, it provides a unified semantics of de re and de se beliefreports. After arguing that de se belief is best thought of as a specialcase of de re belief, I examine whether we can extend this unification tothe realm of belief reports. I show how, despite very promising firststeps, previous attempts in this direction ultimately fail with respect tosome relatively recent linguistic data involving quantified and infinitivalreports, logophoric constructions, and monstrously shifted indexicals.Formalizing my idea of a contextual resolution of acquaintance relations ina dynamic framework, I arrive at an alternative analysis that handles allthese data.
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