Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. Introducing Individual Propositions 1
5. 2. Getting Rid of Individual Propositions? 16
6. 3. It's Just Me Now: Schiffer on Belief 32
7. 4. Rigid Belief Transformed: Plantinga and Ackerman on Essences 56
8. 5. Believing Less by Believing More: Stalnaker and the Defeat of Belief 73
9. 6. Two Nontraditional Analyses of Belief: Self-Attribution and Character 103
10. Postscript: Why the Puzzle Remains a Puzzle 135
11. APPENDIX. Must We Say What He Believes? On Semantics and Pragmatics in Belief Attribution 143
12. Bibliography 161
13. Index 169