On Frege Puzzles

This book argues against the received view of propositional theory, according to which mental attitudes-such as believing, knowing, hoping, and wishing-are relations held between agents and propositions.

Autorentext

Stefan Rinner is an assistant professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focuses on the philosophy of language and related areas, including propositional attitude ascriptions and the semantics of referring expressions. He has published several articles on these topics in leading journals, such as Synthese and Erkenntnis.

Inhalt

Introduction 1. Frege's Puzzle 2. Frege Puzzles for Fregeans 3 Frege Puzzles for Russellians 4. Propositionalism and Schiffer's Puzzle 5. Rejecting Relationalism