Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality / John McDowell.
McDowell, John, author.
2022
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Title Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality / John McDowell.
Author McDowell, John, author.
ISBN 9780674275201
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674275201
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2001
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (478 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674275201 doi
Summary 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.
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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
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