Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality /

Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality / / John McDowell.

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. Througho...

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

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