Intentionality, Folk Psychology, and Reduction

Abstract

A content relation for propositional attitudes is a relation that links contentful psychological states to entities (e.g., propositions) that are eligible to serve as their semantic values. this paper examines the view that our concepts of content relations are implicitly defined by the laws of folk psychology. (it is concerned primarily with the question of whether the view implies that these concepts suffer from a high degree of referential indeterminacy.)