Belief and meaning : the unity and locality of mental content
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Belief and meaning : the unity and locality of mental content
Blackwell, 1992
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Includes bibliography (p. [286]-290) and indexes
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Description
This is a philosphical treatment of intentionality. It argues for a view of intentional content that is at once Fregean and Kantian in its conception of the relation between the mind and the outside world. Without compromising the external constitution of the mind, it denies the importance and relevance of society and normativity to the intentional as well as the connection between intentionality and truth conditions or reference in the official sense. it offers instead an account of intentional content which is local and contextual.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Belief, meaning, and the external world: what is meant by the "unity of content"?
- externalism
- what is meant by the "locality of content"?. Part 2 The unity of interntional content: the threat to the unity of content
- the orthodox externalisms
- why the orthodox externalisms threaten unity and mine doesn't
- some objections to the charge of disunity
- self-knowledge
- more objections to the charge of disunity. Part 3 Society and norm: the relevance of norms and rules to belief and meaning. Part 4 Truth and the locality of content: what is the function of truth-theories of meaning?
- holism and the locality of content
- why only my conception of truth-theories of meaning will allow for the unity of content
- the information-communicative function and the success-explanatory function of content. Part 5 The case fo externalism: motivating externalism
- the best motivation for externalism - publicness
- a second epistemological argument for externalism
- can externalism capture the first person point of view?
- realism about intentional content. Appendix: Self-knowledge and intentionality.
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