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The face-value theory and the content of propositional attitudes

Propositional attitudes are commonly treated as relations between agents and propositions and propositional attitude reports as stating precisely such relations. This is the basis of what Schiffer calls ‘the face-value theory’ of propositional attitude reports. A number of philosophers argued that such theory, as it stands, is untenable, or plainly false. Accordingly, they proposed various moderate or radical departures from it. In what follows I will discuss two such moderate departure, and argue that they do not avoid the very problem that their proponents took as the initial reason for departing from the face-value theory.

The face-value theory; the explication problem; propositional attitudes

Rad je objavljen i u Knjizi sažetaka ; str. 9-9.