An Approach to Indexical Beliefs

Abstract

An approach to indexical beliefs is presented and defended in the paper. The account is inspired by David Kaplan’s representationalist analysis of de re belief reports. I argue that imposing additional constraints on the Kaplanian notion of representation results in an elegant theory of indexical beliefs. The theory is committed to representations of limited accessibility but is not committed to relativized proposition, special de se contents or propositions of limited accessibility.

Keywords

• belief de hic
• belief de nunc
• belief de se
• indexical beliefs
• propositions
• representations