Meaning, Knowledge, and Reality

John McDowell

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ISBN 9780674007123

Publication Date: 12/21/2001

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478 pages

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I. 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
II. 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
III. 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
IV. Issues in Epistemiology
- 17. Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge
- 18. Knowledge and the Internal
- 19. Knowledge by Hearsay
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