Propositional Content
Peter Hanks
Abstract
This book defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. Propositions are types of these actions, which we use to classify and individuate our attitudes and speech acts. This theory abandons several key features of the traditional Fregean conception of propositional content, including the idea that propositions are the primary bearers of truth conditions, the distinction between content and force, and the concept of entertainment. The main difficulty for this tra ... More
Keywords: philosophy of language, propositional content, propositions, unity of the proposition, representation, Fregean conception of propositional content, truth conditions, distinction between content and force, entertainment
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199684892 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2015 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684892.001.0001 |
