The Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports

Nine papers in which philosophers of language and linguists working on theoretical semantics and pragmatics examine reporting on beliefs and other attitudes, and in particular the issue of the semantic-pragmatics boundary dispute that is the core topic in the field's current research. Their topics include propositional attitudes in direct-reference semantics, alternative response besides sense and reference to the problem of opacity, whether we know what Galileo said, whether belief reports report beliefs, the default-based context-dependence of belief reports, and the background of propositional attitudes and reports thereof. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)