Mind, meaning, and reality : essays in philosophy /

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"'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 ne...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mellor, D H.
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Philosophy, British.
Metaphysics.
Language and languages-Philosophy.
Time-Philosophy.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=bGJPAFPj-bEC&pg=PP2&lpg=PP2&dq=mind,+meaning+and+reality&source=bl&ots=70or0I3PrH&sig=LTVxtkklOZRDIz7dqVA1_WDg5mo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFQQ6AEwCWoVChMIhJWbs5myyAIVVgOOCh0trAwV#v=onepage&q=mind%2C%20meaning%20and%20reality&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • pt. 1. Mind and meaning. Nothing like experience
  • What does subjective decision theory tell us?
  • How to believe a conditional
  • Telling the truth
  • Successful semantics
  • pt. 2. What there is. The semantics and ontology of dispositions
  • Truthmakers for what?
  • Too many universes
  • The reduction of society
  • Wholes and parts : the limits of composition
  • Micro-composition
  • pt. 3. Time. Time
  • Transcendental tense
  • Time travel
  • The direction of time.

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