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Shifting situations and shaken attitudes. An interview with Barwise and Perry. (English) Zbl 0557.03002

In this paper, which is presented as an interview of them by a sympathetic and (mostly) well-informed reader of their book ”Situations and attitudes”, J. Barwise and J. Perry deal with criticisms (e.g. those of Partee, van Benthem, Dretske, Turvey and Carello, Janet Fodor, Jackendoff, Landman, Thomason, Smith and Soames) of the realist or situation semantics outlined in that book; and also indicate ways in which their own views have developed since they wrote the book. The most important of these developments is an elaboration of their treatment of opaque contexts, an elaboration which seems to be more consistent with recognition of objects rather like the traditional notion of a proposition than was the account in their book.
Reviewer: J.Mackenzie

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03A05 Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations
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