Meaning, mind, and matter : philosophical essays / Ernie Lepore and Barry Loewer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LePore, Ernest, 1950- author.

Loewer, Barry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Davidson, Donald, 1917-2003.

Davidson, Donald.

Matter--Philosophy.

Matter.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Semantics (Philosophy).

Philosophy of mind.

Mind and body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Other Title:

Philosophical essays

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lepore and Loewer present a series of papers on three key ideas of philosophy: 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.

Contents:

Translational semantics / Ernest Lepore

Three trivial truth theories / Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer

What model-theoretic semantics cannot do / Ernest Lepore

The role of 'conceptual role semantics' / Barry Loewer

Dual-aspect semantics / Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer

What Davidson should have said / Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer

You can say that again / Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer

Conditions on understanding language / Ernest Lepore

Solipsistic semantics / Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer

A Putnam's progress / Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer

Mind matters / Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer

More on making mind matter / Ernest Lepore and Barry Loewer

From physics to physicalism / Barry Loewer

Mental causation, or something near enough / Barry Loewer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 12, 2011).

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

0-19-159526-8

0-19-958078-2