Meaning, mind, and knowledge / Christopher S. Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Christopher S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Philosophy).

Knowledge, Theory of.

Experience--Philosophy.

Experience.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

ix, 331 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

Part I Meaning

2 "gavagai" (1972) 23

Postscript to "gavagai" (2013) 30

3 Rudiments of a Theory of Reference (1987) 32

Postscript to "Rudiments" (2013 49

4 A Substitutional Theory of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence (2006) 51

5 How Concepts Hook onto the World (2013) 66

Part II A Type-materialist Theory of Experience

6 In Defense of Type-materialism (1984) 97

7 Imaginability, Conceivability, Possibility, and the Mind-Body Problem (1997) 117

8 The Identity Theory (2013) 136

Part III A Representationalist Theory of Experience

9 OW! The Paradox of Pain (2005) 155

Postscript to "OW!" (2013) 176

10 Locating Qualia: Do They Reside in the Brain or in the Body and the World? (2012) 177

11 Visual Awareness and Visual Qualia (2013) 197

12 The Content of Visual Experience (2013) 218

Part IV Knowledge

13 Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Skepticism (1996) 239

14 Hawthorne's Lottery Puzzle and the Nature of Belief, (written with Joshua Schechter, 2007) 253

15 Conceivability and Possibility (2013) 273

16 Concepts, Teleology, and Rational Revision (2013) 297.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9780199665822

0199665826

OCLC:

862091545