Direct Belief

An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, and Metaphysics of Belief
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61451-090-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 157 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 415 g

Reihe: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP]

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 issues about context-sensitivity in language and the relation between semantics and pragmatics.

Zielgruppe

Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students with an Interest in the Field of Pramatics and Analytic Philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berg, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Berg, Jonathan
Jonathan Berg, University of Haifa, Israel.