Mind, meaning, and reality : essays in philosophy
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Mind, meaning, and reality : essays in philosophy
Oxford University Press, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-226) and index
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Description
Mind, Meaning, and Reality contains fifteen philosophical papers by D. H. Mellor, including a new defence of 'success semantics', and an introduction arguing that metaphysics can and need only be justified by doing it and not by a 'meta-metaphysics', which it needs no more than physics needs metaphysics. The papers are grouped into three parts. Part I is about how the ways we are disposed to act fix both what we believe and what we use language to mean. Part
II is about what there is: the reality of dispositions; what makes beliefs and sentences true; why there is only one universe; and how social groups, and other things composed of parts, are related to the people and other things that constitute them. Part III is about time, and includes discussions of
twentieth century developments in the philosophy of time; why Kant was right about tense, even though he was wrong about time; why forward time travel is trivial and backward time travel impossible; and what gives time its direction.
Table of Contents
- PART I: MIND AND MEANING
- PART II: WHAT THERE IS
- PART III: TIME
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