Meaning, Mind, and Matter

Ernie Lepore is a Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and the Acting Director of the Rutgers Centre of Cognitive Science. He has authored numerous books and articles mostly in the philosophy of language and mind.Barry Loewer is a Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers. He has published many articles in philosophy of language, mind, philosophy of science, and philosophical logic.

• Introduction ; 1. Translational Semantics ; 2. Three Trivial Truth Theories ; 3. What Model Theoretic Semantics Cannot Do ; 4. The Role of 'Conceptual Role Semantics' ; 5. Dual Aspect Semantics ; 6. What Davidson Should Have Said ; 7. You Can Say That Again ; 8. Conditions on Understanding Language ; 9. Solipsistic Semantics ; 10. Putnam's Progress ; 11. Mind Matters ; 12. Making Mind Matter More ; 13. From Physics to Physicalism ; 14. Mental Causation or Something Close Enough

an excellent resource for someone who wants a grasp of the central objections to Davidson's program that emerged in the twentieth century and the main lines of reply... the book unites a set of highly influential papers that did much to advance our understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the Davidsonian program.