Structured Meanings: The Semantics of Propositional Attitudes

- Barbara H. Partee, University of Massachusetts " Cresswell has been publishing articles on propositional attitudes and related problems for years; he has espoused a variety of approaches to treating them in different articles, and probably has a better perspective on the whole range of past and current approaches and their problems than any other single person.... The topic is particularly timely, now that Barwise and Perry's work on situation semantics and propositional attitudes is the focus of so much attention.... The book is a pleasure to read; Cresswell has taken pains to make it accessible to a wide audience without sacrificing any rigor. In short, I believe this is a major book by a major philosopher of language on a topic of great importance for the future of linguistics and philosophy." - Barbara H. Partee, University of Massachusetts & quot; Cresswell has been publishing articles on propositional attitudes and related problems for years; he has espoused a variety of approaches to treating them in different articles, and probably has a better perspective on the whole range of past and current approaches and their problems than any other single person.... The topic is particularly timely, now that Barwise and Perry's work on situation semantics and propositional attitudes is the focus of so much attention.... The book is a pleasure to read; Cresswell has taken pains to make it accessible to a wide audience without sacrificing any rigor. In short, I believe this is a major book by a major philosopher of language on a topic of great importance for the future of linguistics and philosophy.& quot; - Barbara H. Partee, University of Massachusetts "Cresswell has been publishing articles on propositional attitudes and related problems for years; he has espoused a variety of approaches to treating them in different articles, and probably has a better perspective on the whole range of past and current approaches and their problems than any other single person.... The topic is particularly timely, now that Barwise and Perry's work on situation semantics and propositional attitudes is the focus of so much attention.... The book is a pleasure to read; Cresswell has taken pains to make it accessible to a wide audience without sacrificing any rigor. In short, I believe this is a major book by a major philosopher of language on a topic of great importance for the future of linguistics and philosophy."- Barbara H. Partee, University of Massachusetts