Meaning, knowledge, and reality

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDowell, John Henry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Temas:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Realism.
Théorie de la connaissance.
Signification (Philosophie)
Réalisme.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body
Knowledge, Theory of
Realism
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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