Doxastic semantics and ways of believing

Johannes Stern

doi:10.1007/s11229-026-05623-9

June 19, 2026SyntheseOpen Access

Doxastic semantics and ways of believing

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The aim is to explore a new framework for understanding semantic contents in propositional attitude contexts.
Develop a semantics for propositional attitude contexts based on contextualist ideas.
Implement possible world semantics to analyze belief-reports.
Provides an alternative perspective on how semantic contents relate to truth-supporting circumstances.
Demonstrates that contextual factors play a crucial role in belief-reports.

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Novel semantics for belief-reports highlights contextualism within possible world semantics.

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Taking a discussion of Soames’s argument to the effect that semantic contents cannot be identified with sets of truth-supporting circumstances as a starting point we develop a novel semantics for propositional attitude contexts, and more specifically for belief-reports, that implements contextualist ideas within the framework of possible world semantics.

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