Chapter published in:
Verb and Context: The impact of shared knowledge on TAME categories
Edited by Susana Rodríguez Rosique and Jordi M. Antolí Martínez
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 34] 2023
► pp. 171–202

Solipsistic and inter-subjective attitude reports

From representational to volitionals

| Institut Jean Nicod CNRS/ENS/EHESS/PSL
| Institut Jean Nicod CNRS/ENS/EHESS/PSL

This paper establishes a difference between solipistic and inter-subjective profiles of the attitudes across the epistemic and the bouletic domain. Revisiting the classical Hamblinian view, we propose that attitudes feature speech-act like content, which present p for uptake in the common ground and argue that the uptake with bouletics is ‘realization’. Focusing on a debated distinction between action-oriented vs. mere desire reports, we derive actionability as a felicity condition on the inter-subjective use of want in particular. We study a variety of bouletics in Italian, and show how their temporal and rationality constraints relate to their private or public status and how the default inter-subjective interpretation of want can be manipulated by specific lexical material.

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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Solipsistic and inter-subjective interpretations of the representational attitudes
  • 3.Desiderative reports and ascriptions
    • 3.1Data
      • Rationality
      • Temporal orientation
      • Actions
    • 3.2Previous analysis
      • Are desire reports like all attitude reports?
      • Double material
      • (At least) two types of desire
  • 4.Analysis
    • 4.2Inter-subjective want
    • 4.2Solipsistic bouletics
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 04 January 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.34.08lau
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