Knowledge and reality : selected essays /

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Author / Creator:McGinn, Colin, 1950-
Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description:330 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3831006
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Varying Form of Title:Knowledge and reality
ISBN:0198238231 (alk. paper)
0199251584 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Also available on the Internet to subscribing institutions. Web site shows publication date of 2002.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Knowledge And Necessity
  • 1. The Concept of Knowledge
  • 2. A Priori and A Posteriori Knowledge
  • 3. A Note on the Essence of Natural Kinds
  • 4. On the Necessity of Origin
  • 5. Modal Reality
  • Part II. Thought And World
  • 6. The Structure of Content
  • 7. Conceptual Causation: Some Elementary Reflections
  • 8. Charity, Interpretation, and Belief
  • 9. Radical Interpretation and Epistemology
  • 10. The Mechanism of Reference
  • Part III. Reality And Appearance
  • 11. Truth and Use
  • 12. An A Priori Argument for Realism
  • 13. Two Notions of Realism?
  • 14. Realist Semantics and Content-Ascription
  • 15. Another Look at Colour
  • 16. The Appearance of Colour
  • Index