title: Attitudes and Mental Files in Discourse Representation Theory.
abstract: I present a concrete DRT-based syntax and semantics for the representation of mental states in the style of Kamp (1990). This system is closely related to Recanati's (2012) Mental Files framework, but adds a crucial distinction between anchors, the analogues of mental files, and attitudes like belief, desire and imagination. Attitudes are represented as separate compartments that can be referentially dependent on anchors. I show how the added distinctions help defend the useful notion of an acquaintance-based mental file against Ninan's (Inquiry58(4):368-377 2015) recent challenge involving counterfactualde reattitudes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9712GL Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Emar
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3179-2923
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Maier