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'Mind, Meaning, and reality' contains fifteen philosophical papers by D. H. Mellor, including a new defence of 'success semantics,' and an introduction arguing that metaphysics can and need only be justified by doing it and not by a 'meta-metaphysics,' which it needs no...

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Main Author: Mellor, D. H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Philosophy, British.
Metaphysics.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Reality.
Time > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Mind and meaning. 1. Nothing like experience
  • 2. What does subjective decision theory tell us?
  • 3. How to believe a conditional
  • 4. Telling the truth
  • 5. Successful semantics
  • Part II: What there is. 6. The semantics and ontology of dispositions
  • 7. Truthmakers for what?
  • 8. Too many universes
  • 9. The reduction of society
  • 10. Wholes and parts: the limits of composition
  • 11. Micro-composition
  • Part III: Time. 12. Time
  • 13. Transcendental tense
  • 14. Time travel
  • 15. The direction of time.