Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind

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In this important new collection, Gilbert Harman presents a selection of fifteen interconnected essays on fundamental issues at the center of analytic philosophy. The book opens with a group of four essays discussing basic principles of reasoning and rationality. The next three essays argue against the once popular idea that certain claims are true and knowable by virtue of meaning. In the third group of essays Harman presents his own view of meaning and the possibility of thinking in language. The final three essays investigate the nature of mind, developing further the themes already set out.Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind offers an integrated presentation of this rich and influential body of work, which Harman has developed over thirty years. Contents......Page p0007.djvu Introduction......Page p0009.djvu PART I. REASONING......Page p0015.djvu 1. Rationality......Page p0017.djvu 2. Practical Reasoning......Page p0054.djvu 3. Simplicity as a Pragmatic Criterion for Deciding what Hypotheses to Take Seriously......Page p0083.djvu 4. Pragmatism and Reasons for Belief......Page p0101.djvu PART II. ANALYTICITY......Page p0125.djvu 5. The Death of Meaning......Page p0127.djvu 6. Doubts about Conceptual Analysis......Page p0146.djvu 7. Analyticity Regained?......Page p0152.djvu PART III. MEANING......Page p0161.djvu 8. Three Levels of Meaning......Page p0163.djvu 9. Language, Thought, and Communication......Page p0174.djvu 10. Language Learning......Page p0191.djvu 11. Meaning and Semantics......Page p0200.djvu 12. (Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics......Page p0214.djvu PART IV. MIND......Page p0241.djvu 13. Wide Functionalisin......Page p0243.djvu 14. The Intrinsic Quality of Experience......Page p0252.djvu 15. Immanent and Transcendent Approaches to Meaning and Mind......Page p0270.djvu Bibliography......Page p0285.djvu M......Page p0295.djvu Z......Page p0296.djvu I......Page p0297.djvu Q......Page p0298.djvu W......Page p0299.djvu