Abstract
Attitudinal objects are entities of the sort we refer to as ‘judgments', ‘claims', ‘beliefs', ‘decisions', ‘desires', ‘fears', ‘intentions', ‘promises', and ‘requests'. This chapter defends the view that attitudinal objects form an ontological category of their own, distinct from that of events, states, and propositions. Attitudinal objects are concrete, agent-dependent entities that come with truth or satisfaction conditions as well as a part-whole structure strictly based on partial content. Attitudinal objects are extremely well-reflected in natural language and in our language-independent intuitions; they thus form part of the domain of descriptive metaphysics. The chapter presents the standard view of propositions and outline a compositional semantics for attitude reports with attitudinal objects in place of propositions.
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