Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality

John McDowell

    PART 1: MEANING, TRUTH, AND UNDERSTANDING

    1. Truth-Conditions, Bivalence, and Verificationism

    2. Meaning, Communication, and Knowledge

    3. Quotation and Saying That

    4. In Defence of Modesty

    5. Another Plea for Modesty

    6. Physicalism and Primitive Denotation: Field on Tarski

    PART 2: REFERENCE, THOUGHT, AND WORLDS

    7. Identity Mistakes: Plato and the Logical Atomists

    8. On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name

    9. Truth-Value Gaps

    10.De Re Senses

    11. Singular Thought and the Extent of Inner Space

    12. Intentionality De Re

    13. Putnam on Mind and Meaning

    PART 3: REALISM AND ANTI-REALISM

    14. On "The Reality of the Past"

    15. Anti-Realism and the Epistemology of Understanding

    16. Mathematical Platonism and Dummettian Anti-Realism

    PART 4: ISSUES IN EPISTEMOLOGY

    17. Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge

    18. Knowledge and the Internal

    19. Knowledge by Hearsay

    Bibliography

    Credits

    Index

  • Cover: Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality

John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.