The problem of counterfactual de re attitudes

Authors

  • Igor Yanovich MIT

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v21i0.2620

Keywords:

de re, transworld identification, counterfactual attitudes, de credito

Abstract

The problem of counterfactual attitudes de re was identified by Ninan (2008) as a challenge for standard theories of de re. I show that once counterfactual non-de re attitudes are properly analyzed, trivial composition of such an analysis for them with the analysis of doxastic de re provides the solution to the problem. Thus there is no independent phenomenon of counterfactual attitudes de re, and therefore no problem as such.

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Published

2011-09-03

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