Full Description
Ernie Lepore and Barry Loewer present a series of papers in which they come to terms with three views that have loomed large in philosophy for several decades: that a theory of meaning for a language is best understood as a theory of truth for that language; that thought and language are best understood together via a theory of interpretation; and that the mental is irreducible to the physical. They aim both to offer critical assessment of the views and to develop them. They show that each of these views remains of great significance for current work in philosophy of language and mind.
Contents
Introduction ; 1. Translational Semantics ; 2. Three Trivial Truth Theories ; 3. What Model Theoretic Semantics Cannot Do ; 4. The Role of 'Conceptual Role Semantics' ; 5. Dual Aspect Semantics ; 6. What Davidson Should Have Said ; 7. You Can Say That Again ; 8. Conditions on Understanding Language ; 9. Solipsistic Semantics ; 10. Putnam's Progress ; 11. Mind Matters ; 12. Making Mind Matter More ; 13. From Physics to Physicalism ; 14. Mental Causation or Something Close Enough
