I. Thought

1. Science and Sin
2. Love and Understanding
3. Knowing through Seeing
4. On Reconceiving Cognition
5. Can Thought be Quoted?
6. On Thoughts without Words

II. Things

1. Notes on the Well-Made World
2. On Starmaking
3. Determined Materialism
4. Worlds of Individuals

III. Reference

1. Routes of Reference
2. Metaphor as Moonlighting
3. Splits and Compounds
4. Reference in Art
5. Depiction as Denotation
6. Statements and Pictures
7. About Truth About

IV. Art in Theory

1. Twisted Tales
2. The Telling and the Told
3. Fiction for Five Fingers
4. Three Types of Realism
5. On Being in Style
6. On Symptoms of the Aesthetic
7. Virtue Confined
8. On the Identity of Works of Art
9. Implementation of the Arts

V. Art in Action

1. Notes from the Underground
2. Explorations in Art Education
3. A Message from Mars
4. Art and Ideas
5. The End of the Museum?

• Appendix: Conversation with Frans Boenders and Mia Gosselin
• Sources and Acknowledgments
• Name Index
• Subject Index

Nelson Goodman is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus,

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