- Introduction [James Conant]
- 1. The Return of Aristotle
- A. How Old Is the Mind?
- B. Changing Aristotle’s Mind [with Martha C. Nussbaum]
- C. Aristotle after Wittgenstein
- 2. The Legacy of Logical Positivism
- A. Logical Positivism and Intentionality
- B. Reichenbach’s Metaphysical Picture
- C. Reichenbach and the Myth of the Given
- D. Reichenbach and the Limits of Vindication
- 3. The Inheritance of Pragmatism
- A. Pragmatism and Moral Objectivity
- B. Pragmatism and Relativism: Universal Values and Traditional Ways of Life
- C. Dewey’s Logic: Epistemology as Hypothesis [with Ruth Anna Putnam]
- D. Education for Democracy [with Ruth Anna Putnam]
- 4. Essays after Wittgenstein
- A. Rethinking Mathematical Necessity
- B. Does the Disquotational Theory of Truth Solve All Philosophical Problems?
- C. Realism without Absolutes
- D. The Question of Realism
- 5. Truth and Reference
- A. On Truth
- B. A Comparison of Something with Something Else
- C. Model Theory and the “Factuality” of Semantics
- D. Probability and the Mental
- 6. Mind and Language
- A. Artificial Intelligence: Much Ado about Not Very Much
- B. Models and Modules: Fodor’s The Modularity of Mind
- C. Reflexive Reflections
- D. Reductionism and the Nature of Psychology
- E. Why Functionalism Didn’t Work
- 7. The Diversity of the Sciences
- A. The Diversity of the Sciences
- B. The Idea of Science
- C. Three Kinds of Scientific Realism
- D. Philosophy of Mathematics: Why Nothing Works
- E. The Cultural Impact of Newton: Pope’s Essay on Man and Those “Happy Pieties”
- Credits
- Index
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