
Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind
Gilbert Harman(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 1. July 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-0-19-823802-7 (ISBN)
Description
Gilbert Harman presents a selection of fifteen interconnected essays on fundamental issues at the centre 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 idea that certain claims are true by virtue of meaning and knowable by virtue of meaning. In the third group of essays Harman sets out his own view of meaning, arguing that it depends upon the functioning of concepts in reasoning, perception, and action, by which these concepts are related to the world. He also examines the relation between language and thought. 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.
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This is a collection of previously published papers. It is a pleasure to see them reedited, updated, and available under one cover at an accessible paperback price....Devoted followers of QUinian empiricism and naturalist methodology...will find much in this work to enjoy and applaud. Opponents will find much to disturb and trouble them. All will be stimulated. * Review of Metaphysics *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-823802-7 (9780198238027)
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Gilbert Harman is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
Content
Introduction ; PART I. REASONING ; 1. Rationality ; 2. Practical Reasoning ; 3. Simplicity as a Pragmatic Criterion for Deciding What Hypotheses to Take Seriously ; 4. Pragmatism and Reasons for Belief ; PART II. ANALYTICITY ; 5. The Death of Meaning ; 6. Doubts about Conceptual Analysis ; 7. Analyticity Regained? ; PART III. MEANING ; 8. Three Levels of Meaning ; 9. Language, Thought, and Communication ; 10. Language Learning ; 11. Meaning and Semantics ; 12. (Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics ; PART IV. MIND ; 13. Wide Functionalism ; 14. The Intrinsic Quality of Experience ; 15. Immanent versus Transcendent Theories of Meaning and Mind ; Bibliography ; Index