Meaning, Understanding, and Practice

Barry Stroud is Mills Professor of Metaphysics and Epistemology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Hume (1977, winner of the Matchette Prize awarded by the American Philosophical Association), The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism (1984), The Quest for Reality (1999), and another volume of philosophical essays, Understanding Human Knowledge (2000).

• Introduction ; 1. Wittgenstein and Logical Necessity (1965) ; 2. Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation (1968) ; 3. Inference, Belief, and Understanding (1979) ; 4. Evolution and the Necessities of Thought (1981) ; 5. Wittgenstein's 'Treatment' of the Quest for 'a language which describes my inner experiences and which only I myself can understand' (1983) ; 6. Wittgenstein on Meaning, Understanding, and Community (1990) ; 7. Quine's Physicalism (1990) ; 8. Meaning, Understanding, and Translation (1990) ; 9. The Background of Thought (1991) ; 10. Quine on Exile and Acquiescence (1995) ; 11. Mind, Meaning, and Practice (1996) ; 12. The Theory of Meaning and the Practice of Communication (1998) ; 13. Private Objects, Physical Objects, and Ostension (2000) ; Index