Meaning and Method: Essays in Honor of Hilary Putnam

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Preface List of contributors 1. The source of the concept of truth Michael Dummet 2. Facts that don't matter Catherine Z. Elgin 3. Has the description theory of names been refuted? Jerrold J. Katz 4. Substitution arguments and the individuation of beliefs J. A. Fodor 5. Meanings just ain't in the head Michael Devitt 6. Semantic anorexia: on the notion of 'content' in cognitive science Louise Antony 7. Can the mind change the world? Ned Block 8. Realism, conventionality and 'realism about' Richard Boyd 9. Invidious contrasts within theories Lawrence Sklar 10. Mathematics and modality Hartry Field 11. Ontological commitment: thick and thin Harold Hodes 12. The standard of equality of numbers George Boolos 13. Doing what one ought to do Ruth Anna Putnam 14. Closing up the corpses: diseases of sexuality and the emergence of the psychiatric style of reasoning Arnold I. Davidson 15. Perception and revolution: The Princess Casamassima and the political imagination Martha Nussbaum 16. Human rights, population aging and intergenerational equity Norman Daniels.

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