This book offers a comprehensive primer for the study of
intensionality. It explores and assesses those key theories of
intensionality which have been developed in the twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries. Each of the examined theories is tested as
to whether it can account for the problems associated with (A) the
intersubstitution salva veritate of co-extensional expressions, and
(B) existential generalisation. All of these theories are subsequently
compared so as to determine which of them comes closest to
successfully solving these problems. The book examines four kinds
of intensionalist approaches: the Fregean approach (including Church's
formalisation of Frege's theory); the possible-worlds approaches of
Carnap, Montague and Cresswell; the theory of properties relations and
propositions devised by Bealer; and the Meinongian approaches put
forward by Zalta and Priest. The book also proposes an alternative
to intensionalism: sententialism. Sententialists argue that the
problems of intensionality could be solved by appealing to linguistic
items (usually sentences) rather than intensional entities. Drawing
on the works of Quine, Davidson, Scheffler and R. M. Martin, it
explores the viability and value of sententialism as an alternative to
intensionalism.
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ISBN
9789811024849
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Springer Nature
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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