Meaning, Mind, and Matter
Philosophical Essays
1st Edition
Published on 3. March 2011
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-0-19-958078-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ernie Lepore and Barry Loewer present a series of papers in which they come to terms with three views that have loomed large in philosophy for several decades: that a theory of meaning for a language is best understood as a theory of truth for that language; that thought and language are best understood together via a theory of interpretation; and that the mental is irreducible to the physical. They aim both to offer critical assessment of the views and to develop them. They show that each of these views remains of great significance for current work in philosophy of language and mind.
Reviews / Votes
an excellent resource for someone who wants a grasp of the central objections to Davidson's program that emerged in the twentieth century and the main lines of reply... the book unites a set of highly influential papers that did much to advance our understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the Davidsonian program. * Claire Horisk, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Scholars and advanced students of philosophy
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
543 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-958078-1 (9780199580781)
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Persons
Ernie Lepore is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and the Acting Director of the Rutgers Centre of Cognitive Science. He has authored numerous books and articles mostly in the philosophy of language and mind.
Barry Loewer is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers. He has published many articles in philosophy of language, mind, philosophy of science, and philosophical logic.
Barry Loewer is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers. He has published many articles in philosophy of language, mind, philosophy of science, and philosophical logic.
Content
Introduction ; 1. Translational Semantics ; 2. Three Trivial Truth Theories ; 3. What Model Theoretic Semantics Cannot Do ; 4. The Role of 'Conceptual Role Semantics' ; 5. Dual Aspect Semantics ; 6. What Davidson Should Have Said ; 7. You Can Say That Again ; 8. Conditions on Understanding Language ; 9. Solipsistic Semantics ; 10. Putnam's Progress ; 11. Mind Matters ; 12. Making Mind Matter More ; 13. From Physics to Physicalism ; 14. Mental Causation or Something Close Enough