The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

19. Meaning: A Journey to the Center of the Mind

  1. The Meaning Of Meaning
  2. Intension And Extension
  3. Meaning Is What We Do With It
  4. Does Meaning Exist?
  5. Truth
  6. Possible World Semantics
  7. Truth-conditional Semantics
  8. Holism: Meaning is Relative
  9. Coherence
  10. Verificationism
  11. Externalism
  12. Interlude: Intentionality
  13. Deflationism
  14. Functionalist Truth

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Barwise, Jon & Perry, John: SITUATIONS AND ATTITUDES (MIT Press, 1983)

Barwise, Jon: THE SITUATION IN LOGIC (Cambridge Univ Press, 1988)

Castaneda, Hector-Neri: THINKING, LANGUAGE, EXPERIENCE (University of Minnesota Press, 1989)

Churchland, Paul: SCIENTIFIC REALISM AND THE PLASTICITY OF MIND (Cambridge Univ Press, 1979)

Davidson, Donald: INQUIRIES INTO TRUTH AND INTERPRETATION (Clarendon Press, 1984)

Dennett Daniel: KINDS OF MINDS (Basic, 1998)

Dretske, Fred: KNOWLEDGE AND THE FLOW OF INFORMATION (MIT Press, 1981)

Dretske Fred: EXPLAINING BEHAVIOR (MIT Press, 1988)

Dummett Michael: ELEMENTS OF INTUITIONISM (Oxford University Press, 1977)

Dummett, Michael: TRUTH AND OTHER ENIGMAS (Harvard Univ Press, 1978)

Dummett, Michael: SEAS OF LANGUAGE (Clarendon, 1993)

Fodor, Jerry: A THEORY OF CONTENT (MIT Press, 1990)

Hintikka, Jaakko: THE GAME OF LANGUAGE (Reidel, 1983)

Johnson-Laird, Philip: MENTAL MODELS (Harvard Univ Press, 1983)

Kirkham, Richard: THEORIES OF TRUTH (MIT Press, 1992)

Kripke, Saul: NAMING AND NECESSITY (Harvard University Press, 1972)

Lewis, David: "On The Plurality of Worlds" (Blackwell, 1986)

Loar, Brian: MIND AND MEANING (1981)

Lycan, William: LOGICAL FORM IN NATURAL LANGUAGE (MIT Press, 1984)

Lynch, Michael: THE NATURE OF TRUTH (MIT Press, 2001)

McGinn, Colin: MENTAL CONTENT (Blackwell, 1989)

Millikan, Ruth: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL CATEGORIES (1984)

Moore, A.W.: MEANING AND REFERENCE (Oxford Univ Press, 1993)

Putnam, Hilary: MIND, LANGUAGE AND REALITY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1975)

Putnam, Hilary: REASON, TRUTH AND HISTORY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1981)

Putnam, Hilary: REPRESENTATION AND REALITY (MIT Press, 1988)

Quine, Willard: WORD AND OBJECT (MIT Press, 1960)

Quine, Willard: FROM A LOGICAL POINT OF VIEW (Harper & Row, 1961)

Quine, Willard: THE WEB OF BELIEF (Random House, 1978)

Quine, Willard: ONTOLOGICAL RELATIVITY (Columbia Univ Press, 1969)

Searle, John: INTENTIONALITY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1983)

Tarski, Alfred: LOGIC, SEMANTICS, METAMATHEMATICS (Clarendon, 1956)