Meaning, mind, and knowledge / Christopher S Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Christopher S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Philosophy).

Knowledge, Theory of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 331 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a selection of essays by the leading philosopher Christopher S. Hill. Together, they address central philosophical issues related to four key concerns: the nature of truth; the relation between experiences and brain states; the relation between experiences and representational states; and problems concerning knowledge.

Contents:

1. Introduction

Part I. Meaning :

2. "gavagai" (1972)

Postscript to "gavagai" (2013)

3. Rudiments of a Theory of Reference (1987)

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

5. How Concepts Hook onto the World (2013)

Part II. A Type Materialist Theory of Experience :

6. In Defense of Type Materialism (1984)

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

8. The Identity Theory (2013)

Part III. A Representationalist Theory of Experience :

9. OW! The Paradox of Pain (2005)

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

11. Visual Awareness and Visual Qualia (2013)

12. The Content of Visual Experience (2013)

Part IV. Knowledge :

13. Process Reliabilism and Cartesian Scepticism (1996)

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

15. Conceivability and Possibility (2013)

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

Notes:

Minimal Level Cataloging Plus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-164410-2

OCLC:

922972928