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9780198238027

Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind

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    9780198238027

  • ISBN10:

    0198238029

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-09-16
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

In this important new collection, Gilbert Harman presents a selection of fifteen interconnected essays on fundamental issues at the center of analytic philosophy. The book opens with a group of four essays discussing basic principles of reasoning and rationality. The next three essays argue against the once popular idea that certain claims are true and knowable by virtue of meaning. In the third group of essays Harman presents his own view of meaning and the possibility of thinking in language The final three essays investigate the nature of mind, developing further the themes already set out. Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind offers an integrated presentation of this rich and influential body of work. which Harman has developed over thirty years.

Author Biography


Gilbert Harman is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His books include Thought (1973), The Nature of Morality: An Introduction to Ethics (Oxford, 1977), Change in View: Principles of Reasoning (1986), Skepticism and the Definition of Knowledge (1990), and Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (1996).

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(8)
PART I. REASONING
Rationality
9(37)
Practical Reasoning
46(29)
Simplicity as a Pragmatic Criterion for Deciding what Hypotheses to Take Seriously
75(18)
Pragmatism and Reasons for Belief
93(26)
PART II. ANALYTICITY
The Death of Meaning
119(19)
Doubts about Conceptual Analysis
138(6)
Analyticity Regained?
144(11)
PART III. MEANING
Three Levels of Meaning
155(11)
Language, Thought, and Communication
166(17)
Language Learning
183(9)
Meaning and Semantics
192(14)
(Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics
206(29)
PART IV. MIND
Wide Functionalism
235(9)
The Intrinsic Quality of Experience
244(18)
Immanent and Transcendent Approaches to Meaning and Mind
262(15)
Bibliography 277(10)
Index of Names 287(2)
Index of Subjects 289

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