Mind and Meaning

Name: Mind and Meaning
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ISBN: 9780521338264

ISBN-10: 0521338263

ISBN-13: 9780521338264

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Authors: Brian Loar

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Is linguistic meaning to be accounted for independently of the states of mind of language users, or can it only be explained in terms of them? If the latter, what account of the mental states in question avoids circularity? In this book Brian Loar offers a subtle and comprehensive theory which both preserves the natural priority of the mind in explanations of meaning, and gives an independent characterisation of its features. It is a commonplace that in making decisions agents often have to juggle competing values, and that no available choice Will maximise satisfaction of all of them. Prevailing accounts of rational decision making in such contexts asume that, once all factors are taken…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/25/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Introduction



Propositional attitudes in the theory of mind



Explicating attitude-ascriptions



Functional theories



How to interpret ascriptions of beliefs and desires



Beliefs about particulars



Objectively determinate beliefs and our knowledge of them



Intentionality without intensions



Why truth?



Language and meaning



Public language semantics


Index