Mind, Meaning, And Reality: Essays In Philosophy
by D. H. Mellor /
2012 / English / PDF
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Mind, Meaning, and Reality
Mind, Meaning, and Reality contains fifteen philosophical
papers by D. H. Mellor, including a new defense 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 more than physics needs metaphysics. The papers
are grouped into three parts. Part I is about how the ways we are
disposed to act fixes both what we believe and what we use language
to mean. Part II is about what there is: the reality of
dispositions; what makes beliefs and sentences true; why there is
only one universe; and how social groups, and other things composed
of parts, are related to the people and other things that
constitute them. Part III is about time, and includes discussions
of twentieth century developments in the philosophy of time; why
Kant was right about tense, even though he was wrong about time;
why forward time travel is trivial and backward time travel
impossible; and what gives time its direction.
contains fifteen philosophical
papers by D. H. Mellor, including a new defense 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 more than physics needs metaphysics. The papers
are grouped into three parts. Part I is about how the ways we are
disposed to act fixes both what we believe and what we use language
to mean. Part II is about what there is: the reality of
dispositions; what makes beliefs and sentences true; why there is
only one universe; and how social groups, and other things composed
of parts, are related to the people and other things that
constitute them. Part III is about time, and includes discussions
of twentieth century developments in the philosophy of time; why
Kant was right about tense, even though he was wrong about time;
why forward time travel is trivial and backward time travel
impossible; and what gives time its direction.