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Theories of Intensionality - A Critical Survey (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Theories of Intensionality - A Critical Survey (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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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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