Meaning, understanding, and practice : philosophical essays
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Meaning, understanding, and practice : philosophical essays
Oxford University Press, 2002, c2000
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Meaning, Understanding, and Practice is a selection of the most notable essays of a leading contemporary philosopher on a set of central topics in the subject. Barry Stroud offers penetrating studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought. One question running through many of the essays is how much can be expected from a philosophical account of a person's understanding the meaning of something, and whether it can succeed
without implying that the person understands many other things as well. Five of the essays focus on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and at least that many others work with ideas derived from Wittgenstein. In a helpful introduction Stroud explains how the essays are related to one another and how some of his
ideas about these questions developed over the years.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Wittgenstein and Logical Necessity (1965)
- 2. Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation (1968)
- 3. Inference, Belief, and Understanding (1979)
- 4. Evolution and the Necessities of Thought (1981)
- 5. Wittgenstein's 'Treatment' of the Quest for 'a language which describes my inner experiences and which only I myself can understand' (1983)
- 6. Wittgenstein on Meaning, Understanding, and Community (1990)
- 7. Quine's Physicalism (1990)
- 8. Meaning, Understanding, and Translation (1990)
- 9. The Background of Thought (1991)
- 10. Quine on Exile and Acquiescence (1995)
- 11. Mind, Meaning, and Practice (1996)
- 12. The Theory of Meaning and the Practice of Communication (1998)
- 13. Private Objects, Physical Objects, and Ostension (2000)
- Index
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