Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I. Reasoning
1: Rationality
2: Practical Reasoning
3: Simplicity as a Pragmatic Criterion for Deciding What Hypotheses to Take Seriously
4: Pragmatism and Reasons for Belief
Part II. Analyticity
5: The Death of Meaning
6: Doubts about Conceptual Analysis
7: Analyticity Regained?
Part III. Meaning
8: Three Levels of Meaning
9: Language, Thought, and Communication
10: Language Learning
11: Meaning and Semantics
12: (Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics
Part IV. Mind
13: Wide Functionalism
14: The Intrinsic Quality of Experience
15: Immanent versus Transcendent Theories of Meaning and Mind
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Gilbert Harman is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.

Reviews

This is a collection of previously published papers. It is a pleasure to see them reedited, updated, and available under one cover at an accessible paperback price....Devoted followers of QUinian empiricism and naturalist methodology...will find much in this work to enjoy and applaud. Opponents will find much to disturb and trouble them. All will be stimulated.
*Review of Metaphysics*