Meaning, Knowledge and Reality

Part 1 Meaning, truth, and understanding: truth-conditions, bivalence, and verificationism; meaning, communication, and knowledge; quotation and saying that; in defence of modesty; another plea for modesty; physicalism and primitive denotation - Field on Tarski. Part 2 Reference, thought, and world: identity mistakes - Plato and the logical atomists; on the sense and reference of a proper name; truth-value gaps; de re senses; singular thought and the extent of inner space; intentionality de re; Putnam on mind and meaning. Part 3 Realism and anti-realism: on "the reality of past"; anti-realism and the epistemology of understanding; mathematical Platonism and Dummetian anti-realism. Part 4 Issues in epistemology: criteria, defeasibility, and knowledge; knowledge and the internal; knowledge by hearsay.