- 1. Things and Their Place in Theories
- 2. Empirical Content
- 3. What Price Bivalence?
- 4. On the Very Idea of a Third Dogma
- 5. Use and Its Place in Meaning
- 6. On the Nature of Moral Values
- 7. Five Milestones of Empiricism
- 8. Russell’s Ontological Development
- 9. On Austin’s Method
- 10. Smart’s Philosophy and Scientific Realism
- 11. Goodman’s Ways of Worldmaking
- 12. On the Individuation of Attributes
- 13. Intensions Revisited
- 14. Worlds Away
- 15. Grades of Discriminability
- 16. Lewis Carroll’s Logic
- 17. Kurt Gödel
- 18. Success and Limits of Mathematization
- 19. On the Limits of Decision
- 20. Predicates, Terms, and Classes
- 21. Responses
- 22. Postscript on Metaphor
- 23. Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People?
- 24. Paradoxes of Plenty
- 25. The Times Atlas
- 26. Mencken’s American Language
- References
- Index


Theories and Things
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Publication Date: 01/01/1986