Attitude Reports, Unarticulated Constituents, and Mental Files
Attitude Reports, Unarticulated Constituents, and Mental Files
Online workshop. May 5, 2026.
Online workshop. May 5, 2026.
The notions of unarticulated constituent and mental file have been applied to problems related to language and mind in the tradition of analytic philosophy. This one-day workshop will explore these two notions and their relation to the attributions of beliefs and other attitudes.
The topics addressed in the workshop will include:
The semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports
The nature and psychological role of mental files
The content of mental files and their relation to proper names
The motivations for positing unarticulated constituents
The relationship between mental files and attitude reports
The relationship between unarticulated constituents and attitude reports
The workshop will precede the online conference Philosophy and Generative Grammar 3.