On Frege Puzzles: Why Propositions Are Not the Objects of Our Mental Attitudes

This book argues against the received view of propositional theory, according to which mental attitudes-such as believing, knowing, hoping, and wishing-are relations held between agents and propositions.

Stefan Rinner is an assistant professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research focuses on the philosophy of language and related areas, including propositional attitude ascriptions and the semantics of referring expressions. He has published several articles on these topics in leading journals, such as Synthese and Erkenntnis.