Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining
feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular …

In this paper we investigate a semantics for first-order logic originally proposed by R. van
Rooij to account for the idea that vague predicates are tolerant, that is, for the principle that if …

The idea that people can entertain propositions without believing them is widespread,
intuitive, and most probably false. The main goal of this essay is to argue against the claim …

There is wide agreement that a term is vague to the extent that it has borderline cases. This
makes the notion of a borderline case crucial in accounts of vagueness. This entry will …

Vagueness is a pervasive feature of natural language, which has been studied from a range
of perspectives. This review focuses on recent empirical insights into vagueness that have …

Negation is in the first place a phenomenon of semantic opposition. As such, negation
relates an expression\(e\) to another expression with a meaning that is in some way …

Dispositionalism about belief has had a recent resurgence. In this paper we critically
evaluate a popular dispositionalist program pursued by Eric Schwitzgebel. Then we present …

Theory of mind, the capacity to understand and ascribe mental states, has traditionally been
conceptualized as analogous to a scientific theory. However, recent work in philosophy and …

In a world of change, we see species go from common to rare and yet are unable to point to
any moment at which they ceased to be common. We see people grow old and yet cannot …

Belief storage is often modeled as having the structure of a single, unified web. This model
of belief storage is attractive and widely assumed because it appears to provide an …