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THEORIES OF INTENSIONALITY IBD

SPRINGER
04 / 2018
9789811096273
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Sinopsis

This book offers a comprehensive primer for the study of intensionality. áIt explores and assesses those key theories of intensionality which have been developed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. áEach 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. áThe book examines four kinds of intensionalist approaches: the Fregean approach (including ChurchâÇÖs formalisation of FregeâÇÖs 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.áThe book also proposes an alternative to intensionalism: sententialism. áSententialists argue that the problems of intensionality could be solved by appealing to linguistic items (usually sentences) rather than intensional entities. áDrawing 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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