Telling What She Thinks : Semantics and Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 The central problems -- 1.1 The story to be told -- 1.2 Propositional attitudes and their attributions -- 1.3 Type of attitude reports concerned -- 1.4 Opacity and contents of belief reports -- 1.5 The strategy of the project -- Part II: State of research -- 2 Structured propositionalism and its shared assumptions -- 2.1 Frege's puzzle -- 2.2 Two types of solutions from structured propositionalism -- 2.2.1 Frege's solutions -- 2.2.2 Millian transparency -- 2.3 Common acceptance of the assumptions -- 2.3.1 Eigenname view -- 2.3.2 Relation Account -- 2.4 Summary -- 3 Indirectness of speech and role of deixis -- 3.1 The crosslingual nature of Eigenname view -- 3.2 Evidence and arguments against the Eigenname view -- 3.2.1 Content clause is not an NP -- 3.2.2 Syntactic distinction between direct and indirect discourses -- 3.2.3 Summary -- 3.3 Content clause as an adjunct -- 3.3.1 Is the Japanese content clause adverbial complement? -- 3.3.2 Di culties -- 3.4 Content clause as a main clause -- 3.4.1 Deixis and indirectness of discourse -- 3.4.2 Hypothesis of the adjunct frame -- 3.5 Summary -- 4 Metaphysical status of propositional attitudes -- 4.1 Identity account and double duties of abstract content -- 4.1.1 Content as an abstract and public entity -- 4.1.2 Grasping abstract entities -- 4.1.3 Incompatibility of duties -- 4.2 Isomorphism and the problem of reading back -- 4.2.1 The Language of Thought hypothesis -- 4.2.2 Independence of the domains -- 4.2.3 Problems of reading back -- 4.3 Account of propositional attitudes without reading back -- 4.4 De cits of IUFs: Evaluation of the measurement-theoretic account -- 4.4.1 Idiolectal conclusion -- 4.4.2 Maximal elaboration and pragmatic nature of the linguistic domain.

4.4.3 Recap: Nature of the representation domain -- 4.5 Hypothesis -- Part III: Communicational approach -- 5 Communicative framework and discursive opacity -- 5.1 The context of content determination -- 5.2 Pragmatic content determination -- 5.3 Opacity in the pragmatic analysis -- 5.3.1 Rede ning the opacity -- 5.3.2 Contexts for content determination and truth evaluation -- 5.4 Summary -- 6 Opacity as a feature of the frame -- 6.1 The opaque frame hypothesis -- 6.2 The hidden indexical theory -- 6.3 Paratactic account -- 6.3.1 Davidson's analysis -- 6.3.2 Two problems of the paratactic account -- 6.3.3 Recap -- 6.4 Summary -- 7 Adverbial account of the frame -- 7.1 Linguistic supports for the adverbial account -- 7.2 Austinian semantics on transparency -- 7.3 Analysis of transparent belief reports -- 7.4 Analyzing the opacity -- 7.4.1 Recanati on opacity -- 7.4.2 Unstable contexts -- 7.4.3 Recap -- 7.5 Di culties of Recanati's account -- 7.5.1 Transparency and stability of context -- 7.5.2 Mixed occurrences of singular terms -- 7.5.3 Epistemic state and content determination -- 7.6 Summary -- Part IV: The VarCA analysis -- 8 The VarCA Analysis -- 8.1 Two foci in reporting beliefs: Reexamining the example -- 8.2 Two types of VarCAs -- 8.2.1 Two distinct VarCAs -- 8.2.2 The VarCA analysis for transparent belief reports -- 8.2.3 The VarCA analysis for opaque belief reports -- 8.3 Summary -- 9 Consequences of the opaque VarCA -- 9.1 Coreference of proper names -- 9.2 Sameness of a name -- 9.3 Discursive opacity -- 9.4 Mixed belief reports and default transparency -- 9.5 Ontological hyperinflation -- 9.6 Summary -- Part V: Concluding remarks -- 10 Conclusion -- 10.1 Requirements for the VarCA analysis -- 10.1.1 Linguistic requirements -- 10.1.2 Pragmatic analysis -- 10.1.3 Requirement for truth evaluation -- 10.2 Extending the class of objectives.

List of sentences -- Bibliography -- Source of examples -- Source of linguistic data -- Index.

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