Andrew Pessin, Sanford Goldberg

The Twin Earth Chronicles

Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam's the "Meaning of Meaning"

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Produktbeschreibung

In 1975 Harvard philosopher Hilary Putnam published a paper called "The Meaning of 'Meaning'", in which he challenged orthodox views in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. The article's Twin Earth thought experiment was simple, but the philosophical conclusions deriving from it - about the nature of meaning and reference, of thoughts, of knowledge - were profound. The philosophical community responded quickly, in full force, and from every possible direction, and has kept it up ever since. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of the publication of Putnam's classic paper, the editors have collected the very best of the writing on the subject of Twin Earth by the leading contemporary philosophers. In addition to reprinting essays by such well-known contemporary philosophers as John Searle, Daniel Dennett, and others, this volume reprints Putnam's original essay and includes a completely new Introduction by Putnam, written expressly for this collection. This volume will acquaint novice philosophers with one of the most important debates in twentieth-century philosophy, and will provide seasoned readers with a useful compendium of writing on essential questions in the philosophies of language and mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 322mm x 106mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781563248733
• ISBN-10: 1563248735
• Artikelnr.: 21989788

Autorenporträt

Andrew Pessin, Sanford Goldberg

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Where It All Began
Chapter 1 The Meaning of "Meaning", Hilary Putnam
Part 2 Natural Kinds and Philosophy of Language
Chapter 2 Putnam's Theory on the Reference of Substance Terms, Eddy Zemach
Chapter 3 Natural Kinds, D. H. Mellor
Chapter 4 Putnam on Artifacts, Stephen P. Schwartz
Chapter 5 From Intentionality: Are Meanings in the Head?, John Searle
Chapter 6 Natural-Kind Terms, Kim Sterelny
Part 3 Mental Content and Mental Causation
Chapter 7 From "Individualism and the Mental", Tyler Burge
Chapter 8 Other Bodies, Tyler Burge
Chapter 9 From "Beyond Belief": Notional Attitudes, Daniel Dennett
Chapter 10 Social Content and Psychological Content, Brian Loar
Chapter 11 From Psychosemantics: Individualism and Supervenience, Jerry Fodor
Chapter 12 Functionalism and Broad Content, Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit
Chapter 13 On What's in the Head, Robert Stalnaker
Chapter 14 From Mental Content: Twin Earth and Teleology, Colin McQinn
Chapter 15 A Modal Argument for Narrow Content, Jerry Fodor
Chapter 16 All the Difference in the World, Tim Crane
Chapter 17 Putnam on Mind and Meaning, John McDowell
Part 4 Self-Knowledge
Chapter 18 Knowing One's Own Mind, Donald Davidson
Chapter 19 Individualism and Self-Knowledge, Tyler Burge
Chapter 20 Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access, Michael McKinsey
Chapter 21 Can Externalism Be Reconciled with Self-Knowledge?, Akeel Bilgrami