TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction
AU - Schmitz, Michael
AU - Mras, Gabriele
PY - 2022/12/31
Y1 - 2022/12/31
N2 - The distinction between the force/mode of speech acts and intentional states and their propositional content has been a central feature of analytic philosophy since Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. Proponents of the force-content distinction (FCD) therefore hold that all logical operations operate on forceless propositions and that all propositions, whether atomic or molecular, negated, disjunctive, conditional or conjunctive, require a separate, additional act in order to be judged or asserted to be true. Though naturalistically inclined philosophers were of course never sympathetic to Frege's Platonism about propositions, this typically only led to attempts to replace propositions with declarative sentences or classes of such sentences. The traditional unity problem is the problem of how the constituents of a proposition can be so related that they constitute a representation of states of affairs rather than a mere list. Mark Textor gives an account of attitude reports as part of his project of a defense of a restricted version of the FCD.
AB - The distinction between the force/mode of speech acts and intentional states and their propositional content has been a central feature of analytic philosophy since Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. Proponents of the force-content distinction (FCD) therefore hold that all logical operations operate on forceless propositions and that all propositions, whether atomic or molecular, negated, disjunctive, conditional or conjunctive, require a separate, additional act in order to be judged or asserted to be true. Though naturalistically inclined philosophers were of course never sympathetic to Frege's Platonism about propositions, this typically only led to attempts to replace propositions with declarative sentences or classes of such sentences. The traditional unity problem is the problem of how the constituents of a proposition can be so related that they constitute a representation of states of affairs rather than a mere list. Mark Textor gives an account of attitude reports as part of his project of a defense of a restricted version of the FCD.
UR - https://permalink.obvsg.at/wuw/AC16393213
U2 - 10.4324/9781003105152
DO - 10.4324/9781003105152
M3 - Chapter in edited volume
SN - 9780367561130
SN - 9780367613136
T3 - Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
SP - 1
EP - 14
BT - Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition
A2 - Mras, Gabriele
A2 - Schmitz, Michael
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London, New York
ER -