Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind

Gilbert Harman is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.

• 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

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.