Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality / / John McDowell.

• VerfasserIn: McDowell, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (478 p.)

This is the second volume of John McDowell's selected papers. These nineteen essays collectively report on McDowell's involvement, over more than twenty years, with questions about the interface between the philosophies of language and mind and with issues in general epistemology. Throughout McDowell focuses on questions to do with content: with the nature of content both linguistic and psychological; with what McDowell regards as misguided views about content; and with the form which a proper semantic theory of content should assume.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- I. MEANING, TRUTH, AND UNDERSTANDING -- 1. Truth-Conditions, Bivalence, and Verificationism -- 2. Meaning, Communication, and Knowledge -- 3. Quotation and Saying That -- 4. In Defence of Modesty -- 5. Another Plea for Modesty -- 6. Physicalism and Primitive Denotation: Field on Tarski -- II. REFERENCE, THOUGHT, AND WORLD -- 7. Identity Mistakes: Plato and the Logical Atomists -- 8. On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name -- 9. Truth-Value Gaps -- 10. De Re Senses -- 11. Singular Thought and the Extent of Inner Space -- 12. Intentionality De Re -- 13. Putnam on Mind and Meaning -- III REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM -- 14. On “The Reality of the Past” -- 15. Anti-Realism and the Epistemology of Understanding -- 16. Mathematical Platonism and Dummettian Anti-Realism -- IV ISSUES IN EPISTEMOLOGY -- 17. Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge -- 18. Knowledge and the Internal -- 19. Knowledge by Hearsay -- Bibliography -- Credits -- Index