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Consciousness and meaning : selected essays /

One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of subjectivity in a purely physical universe. Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for over four decades. This volume brings together his most important and influential essays in the philosoph...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loar, Brian (Author)
Other Authors: Balog, Kati (Editor), Beardman, Stephanie (Assistant professor) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Series:UPSO - Oxford University Press E-Books.
Subjects:
Consciousness.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Conscience.
Signification (Philosophie)
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Consciousness
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I Philosophy of Language
  • Introduction to Part I / Stephen Schiffer
  • 1. Reference and Prepositional Attitudes
  • 2. Two Theories of Meaning
  • 3. Semantics of Singular Terms
  • 4. Must Beliefs Be Sentences?
  • 5. Names in Thought
  • 6. Truth beyond All Verification
  • 7. Supervenience of Social Meaning on Speaker's Meaning
  • Pt. II Philosophy of Mind
  • Introduction to Part II / Katalin Balog
  • 8. Social Content and Psychological Content
  • 9. Subjective Intentionality
  • 10. Phenomenal States
  • 11. Can We Explain Intentionality?
  • 12. Elimination versus Non-reductive Physicalism
  • 13. Reference from the First-person Perspective
  • 14. Transparent Experience and the Availability of Qualia
  • 15. Phenomenal Intentionality as the Basis of Mental Content.