Act-Based Conceptions of Propositional Content Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

Friederike Moltmann is senior researcher at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and at New York University. She has published numerous articles in both linguistic and philosophical journals and is author of Parts and Wholes in Semantic (OUP,1997) and Abstract Objects and the Semantics of Natural Language (OUP 2013).

Mark Textor is professor of philosophy in King's College London. He works on history of philosophy, especially analytic philosophy, philosophy of language and mind. His book Brentano's Mind is forthcoming with OUP.

I Historical Perspectives
Chapter 1- Husserl, Edmund: Excerpts from Logical Investigations
Chapter 2 - Meinong, Alexius: Excerpts from On Assumptions
Chapter 3 - Reinach, Adolf: Excerpts from On the Theory of the Negative Judgment (with an introduction by Mark Textor)
Chapter 4 - Twardowski, Kazmierz: The Psychology of Thinking
Twardowski, Kazmierz: Theory of Judgment
Twardowski, Kazmierz: Actions and Products. Some Remarks from the Borderline of Psychology, Grammar, and Logic.
Chapter 5 - Miskiewicz, Wioletta: The theory of objects in On Actions and Products. A note on the translation
Miskiewicz, Wioletta: 'On Actions and Products (1911) by Kazimierz Twardowski: its historical genesis and philosophical impact.

II Contemporary Perspectives
Chapter 1 - Soames, Scott: For Want of Cognitively Defined Propositions. A History of Insights and Lost Opportunities
Chapter 2 - Fiengo, Robert: Austin's Cube: The Speech Acts of Asserting
Chapter 3 - Hanks, Peter: Propositions, Synonymy, and Compositional Semantics
Chapter 4 - Moltmann, Friederike: Cognitive Products and the Semantics of Attitude Verbs and Deontic Modals
Chapter 5 - Textor, Mark: Judgement, Perception and Predication
Chapter 6 - Ripley, David: Bilateralism, Coherentism, and Warrant
Chapter 7 - Gerner, Matthias: Actions and Products Worldwide