The reality of meaning & the meaning of "reality" /
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| Author / Creator: | Zemach, Eddy M. |
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| Imprint: | Hanover, NH : Published by University Press of New England [for] Brown University Press, c1992. |
| Description: | vi, 220 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1341817 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. What Meaning Is Not. 1.1. The Project. 1.2. Sentences in Society. 1.3. Sentences on Their Own? 1.4. Sentences in the Brain. 1.5. Cognitive Role and Sentences in the Head. 1.6. The Irreducibility of Truth
- 2. Wittgenstein's Solution. 2.1. Seeing as. 2.2. Use. 2.3. Aesthetics as Semantics
- 3. Things In and Out of the Mind. 3.1. Denotation and Representation. 3.2. Things. 3.3. Worlds in the Head. 3.4. Worlds and Their Dwellers
- 4. Sense and Reference. 4.1. Is It the Same Thing? 4.2. Sense: An Identity Function. 4.3. Reference: Another Identity Function. 4.4. Definite Descriptions and Indexicals. 4.5. Sentences and Truth Conditions
- 5. Odd Beliefs. 5.1. The Belief World. 5.2. In Pierre's World. 5.3. Mabel's Troubles. 5.4. Shem's Arithmetic. 5.5. Can Identity Be Contingent? 5.6. Identity and Metaphor
- 6. Mental States. 6.1. From Language to Mind. 6.2. First-Level Intentionality: Meaning. 6.3. Second-Level Intentionality: Factual Belief. 6.4. Desire, Perception, Sensation. 6.5. Emotion
- 7. Action. 7.1. Intention. 7.2: Volition. A Third-Level Intentionality? 7.3. Wayward Causal Chains
- 8. Scientific Realism. 8.1. From Mind to World. 8.2. Prediction and Other Constraints. 8.3. Is There an Empirical Support for Science? 8.4. An Unknown Identity Is Useless for Confirmation. 8.5. Eliminative Materialism, or, Is This a Science? 8.6. Science and Naive Realism. 8.7. The Success of Science Argument Again
- 9. Metaphysical Realism. 9.1. Semantic Cosmetics. 9.2. Intuitionism and Understanding. 9.3. Verificationism Old and New. 9.4. The Status of Observation. 9.5. Romanticism Vindicated.