Introduction
Part I. Reasoning
1: Rationality
2: Practical Reasoning
3: Simplicity as a Pragmatic Criterion for Deciding What Hypotheses
to Take Seriously
4: Pragmatism and Reasons for Belief
Part II. Analyticity
5: The Death of Meaning
6: Doubts about Conceptual Analysis
7: Analyticity Regained?
Part III. Meaning
8: Three Levels of Meaning
9: Language, Thought, and Communication
10: Language Learning
11: Meaning and Semantics
12: (Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics
Part IV. Mind
13: Wide Functionalism
14: The Intrinsic Quality of Experience
15: Immanent versus Transcendent Theories of Meaning and Mind
Bibliography
Index
Gilbert Harman is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
This is a collection of previously published papers. It is a
pleasure to see them reedited, updated, and available under one
cover at an accessible paperback price....Devoted followers of
QUinian empiricism and naturalist methodology...will find much in
this work to enjoy and applaud. Opponents will find much to disturb
and trouble them. All will be stimulated.
*Review of Metaphysics*
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