Outline of My Book

Introduction


• Beliefs about non-existent objects
  
  
• Beliefs and identity
  
  
Definitions

Axioms

Tarski and Truth

The Problems with Opacity


• Discussion of Issues with Propositional Attitudes & Opacity
  
  
  • Cicero and Tully
    
    
  • Quantifying In
    
    
• Discussion of Issues with Modal Logic & Opacity
  
  
  • Parallels with Propositional Attitudes
    
    
  • Differences with Propositional Attitudes
    
    
Discussion of Issues with Synonomy


• The Paradox of Analysis
  
  
Discussion of Issues in Samuel Leben's Book MRTJ


• The Role of Propositions
  
  
  • The information content of a sentence relative to a context of utterance.
    
    
  • That which synonymous sentences have in common.
    
    
  • The object of understanding and other propositional attitudes.
    
    
  • The primary bearers of truth or falsity.
    
    
  • Primary bearers of modally qualified truth-values.
    
    
  • The representational content of experience.
    
    
  • The ontological foundation of possible worlds.
    
    
  • The content of the common ground in a conversation.
    
    
  • The semantic value of non-factive that-clauses.
    
    
  • The semantic value of certain demonstratives and anaphora.
    
    
  • The domain for certain quantifiers.
    
    
• Problems to Avoid
  
  
  • The Problem of Unity
    
    
  • The Problem of Quantity
    
    
  • The Problem of Aboutness
    
    
  • The Problem od Dependence
    
    
Discussion of Causal Laws

Theorems

Examples