Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems.Attitude Problemspresents an original account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as want, seek, imagine, and worship. Forbes offers a theory of how such verbs work that draws on ideas from natural language semantics, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.
1. Compositionality 2. A Brief Guide to Type Theory 3. Intensional Transitives 4. Propositionalism 5. Quantifiers and Characterization 6. Unspecificity and Inference 7. Verbs of Creation and Depiction 8. Substitutivity
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