Part 1 Meaning and mentalism: Fodor and Chomsky; three reasons why mentalism can't be right; connections between 1,2, and 3. Part 2 Meaning, other people and the world: the division of linguistic labour; elms, beeches and searle; the contribution of the environment; an indexical component; other natural kinds; references and theory change; meaning and "Mental Representation". Part 3 Fodor and Block on "Narrow Content": narrow content as a "Function of Observable Properties"; "Narrow Content" and "Conceptual Role"; concluding remarks. Part 4 Are there such things as reference and truth?: why "Folk Psychology" and not "Folk Logic"?; disquotation, anyone?; the "Semantical Conception" of truth; disquotation as disappearance. Part 5 Why functionalism didn't work: sociofunctionalism; what "In Principle" means here; the single-computational-state version of functionalism; equivalence; surveying rationality. Part 6 Other forms of functionalism: David Lewis and I; Lewis's theory further examined; conclusion. Part 7 A sketch of an alternative picture: objectivity and conceptual relativity; internal realism as an alternative picture; my present diagnosis of the "Functionalism" issue.
Representation and Reality is one of the most thorough and careful criticisms of reductionism in the philosophy of mind that we have yet seen, and all future discussions of the computerhuman analogy will have to take account of it. -- Richard Rorty, University of Virginia With striking candor, Putnam exposes the factors that have shaped his thinking about intentionality. Since that thinking has had a great influence, this book is full of valuable insights into current philosophical methods, foibles, and aspirations. As usual, he sets a hard task for his colleagues: figuring out how to agree with just 90 percent of what he says. -- Daniel Dennett, Tufts University
Hilary Putnam is Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Mathematical Logic at Harvard University.
" Representation and Reality is one of the most thorough and careful criticisms of reductionism in the philosophy of mind that we have yet seen, and all future discussions of the computerhuman analogy will have to take account of it." Richard Rorty, University of Virginia
" Representation and Reality is one of the most thorough and careful criticisms of reductionism in the philosophy of mind that we have yet seen, and all future discussions of the computerhuman analogy will have to take account of it." Richard Rorty, University of Virginia
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