The Twin Earth Chronicles: Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnam’s “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’”

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In 1975, Putnam published a paper called The Meaning of 'Meaning', which challenged the orthodox view in the philosophies of language and mind. The article's Twin Earth conclusions about meaning, thought and knowledge were shocking. This work contains writings on the subject of Twin Earth. Cover Half Title Title Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction I. Where It All Began 1. “The Meaning of ‘Meaning’ “ (1975) II. Natural Kinds and Philosophy of Language Introduction 2. “Putnam’s Theory on the Reference of Substance Terms“ (1976) 3. “Natural Kinds“ (1977) 4. “Putnam on Artifacts“ (1978) 5. From Intentionality (1983): “Are Meanings in the Head?“ 6. “Natural-Kind Terms“ (1983) III. Mental Content and Mental Causation Introduction 7. From “Individualism and the Mental“ (1979) 8. “Other Bodies“ (1982) 9. From “Beyond Belief“ (1982): “Notional Attitudes“ 10. “Social Content and Psychological Content“ (1985) 11. From Psychosemantics (1987): “Individualism and Supervenience“ 12. “Functionalism and Broad Content“ (1988) 13. “On What’s in the Head“ (1989) 14. From Mental Content (1989): “Twin Earth and Teleology“ 15. “A Modal Argument for Narrow Content“ (1991) 16. “All the Difference in the World“ (1991) 17. “Putnam on Mind and Meaning“ (1992) IV. Self-Knowledge Introduction 18. “Knowing One’s Own Mind“ (1987) 19. “Individualism and Self-Knowledge“ (1988) 20. “Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access“ (1991) 21. “Can Externalism Be Reconciled with Self-Knowledge?“ (1992) Bibliography Index