Reasoning, Meaning, and Mind

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