Abstract: It is often assumed that attitude reports (like 'Pierre believes that London is overcrowded') express that the subject (Pierre) stands in an interesting psychological relation (belief) to the proposition expressed by the embedded sentence ('London is overcrowded'). If we are minimally competent in making these reports, it plausibly follows that we stand in interesting psychological relations to "singular" propositions that directly involve objects in our environment -- with far-reaching philosophical consequences. I suggest an alternative, counterpart-theoretic analysis of the relevant attitude reports that does not license these conclusions.
When | Wed Oct 17, 2018 2am – 3:30am Coordinated Universal Time |
Where | Sydney Uni, Muniment Room (map) |