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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824841403321

Autore

Harman Gilbert

Titolo

Reasoning, meaning and mind / / Gilbert Harman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-159763-5

1-281-97045-X

9786611970451

0-19-151934-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Disciplina

128/.33

Soggetti

Reasoning

Meaning (Philosophy)

Philosophy of mind

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-286) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""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 Functionalisin""""14. The Intrinsic Quality of Experience""; ""15. Immanent and Transcendent Approaches to Meaning and Mind""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Names""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""; ""Index of Subjects""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Sommario/riassunto

The author presents a selection of 15 interconnected essays on fundamental issues at the centre of analytic philosophy. The book



offers an integrated presentation of the body of work which Harman has developed over 30 years.