Hilary Putnam

Philosophical Papers

Volume 2, Mind, Language and Reality
Herausgeber: Hilary, Putnam; Putnam, Hilary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Professor Hilary Putnam's most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two volumes. The first deals with the philosophy of mathematics and of science and the nature of philosophical and scientific enquiry; the second deals with the philosophy of language and mind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780521295512
• ISBN-10: 0521295513
• Artikelnr.: 21394539

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Language and philosophy
2. The analytic and synthetic
3. Do true assertions correspond to reality?
4. Some issues in the theory of grammar
5. The 'innateness hypothesis' and explanatory models in linguistics
6. How not to talk about meaning
7. Review of The concept of a person
8. Is semantics possible?
9. The refutation of conventionalism
10. Reply to Gerald Massey
11. Explanation and reference
12. The meaning of 'meaning'
13. Language and reality
14. Philosophy and our mental life
15. Dreaming and 'depth grammar'
16. Brains and behaviour
17. Other minds
18. Minds and machines
19. Robots: machines or artificially created life?
20. The mental life of some machines
21. The nature of mental states
22. Logical positivism and the philosophy of mind
Bibliography
Index.