The Twin Earth Chronicles
The
Twin Earth
Chronicles
Twenty Years of Reflection on Hilary Putnams The Meaning of Meaning
Edited by
Andrew Pessin
and
Sanford Goldberg
First published 1996 by M.E. Sharpe
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The twin earth chronicles: twenty years of reflection on Hilary Putnams The meaning of meaning / edited by Andrew Pessin and Sanford Goldberg.
p. cm.
Includes the text of Hilary Putnams The meaning of meaning.
Collection of twenty-one previously published articles, 19751992.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56324-873-5. ISBN 1-56324-874-3 (pbk.)
1. Putnam, Hilary. Meaning of meaning. 2. Language
and languagesPhilosophy. 3. Meaning (Psychology)
I. Pessin, Andrew. II. Goldberg, Sanford. III. Putnam, Hilary.
Meaning of meaning.
P106.P883T88 1995
149.94dc20 95-10001
CIP
ISBN 13:9781563248740 (pbk)
ISBN 13; 9781563248733 (hbk)
This volume is dedicated,
with love and thanks, to our wives,
Sarah and Judy.
Contents
by Hilary Putnam
Natural Kinds and Philosophy of Language
Introduction
by Eddy Zemach
by D. H. Mellor
by Stephen P. Schwartz
by John Searle
by Kim Sterelny
Mental Content and Mental Causation
Introduction
by Tylet Burge
by Tyler Burge
by Daniel Dennett
by Brian Loar
by Jerry Fodor
Frank Jackson and Philip Pcttit
by Robert Stalnakcr
by Colin McGinn
by Jerry Fodor
by Tim Crane
by John McDowell
Self-Knowledge
Introduction
by Donald Davidson
by Tyler Burge
by Michael McKinsey
by Akeel Bilgrami
E VERY ATTEMPT HAS BEEN MADE to trace the ownership of all copyrighted material included in this book and to make proper acknowledgement thereof. If an error has inadvertently occurred, the editors will make the necessary correction in subsequent editions provided notification is received.
1. The Meaning of Meaning by Hilary Putnam originally appeared in Language, Mind, and Knowledge, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. VII, 13193. Ed. K. Gunderson. 1975 by the University of Minnesota. Published by University of Minnesota Press. Reprinted by permission of the author and University of Minnesota Press.
2. Putnams Theory on the Reference of Substance Terms by Eddy Zemach originally appeared in The Journal of Philosophy LXXIII, 5 (March 11, 1976) 11627. Reprinted by permission of the author and The Journal of Philosophy.
3. Natural Kinds by D. H. Mellor originally appeared in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 28 (1977) 299312. Reprinted by permission of British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
4. Putnam on Artifacts by Stephen Schwartz originally appeared in The Philosophical Review LXXXVII, 4 (October 1978) 56674. Reprinted by permission of the author and The Philosophical Review.
5. The selection by John Searle is excerpted from his book Intentionality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) 197208. 1983 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by permission of the author and Cambridge University Press.
6. Natural Kind Terms by Kim Sterelny originally appeared in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 64 (1983) 11025. Reprinted by permission of Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.
7. Individualism and the Mental by Tyler Burge originally appeared in Midwest Studies in Philosophy Vol. IV, 73122; the excerpt here is from 7387. Eds. P. French, T. Uehling, and W. Wettstein. 1979 by the University of Minnesota. Published by University of Minnesota Press. Reprinted by permission of the author and University of Minnesota Press.
8. Other Bodies by Tyler Burge originally appeared in Thought and Object: Essays on Intentionality, ed. A. Woodfield (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), 97120. 1982 by Tyler Burge. Reprinted by permission of the author and Oxford University Press.
9. Beyond Belief by Daniel Dennett originally appeared in Thought and Object: Essays on Intentionality, ed. A. Woodfield (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), 196; the excerpt here is from 3660. 1982 by Daniel Dennett. Reprinted by permission of the author and Oxford University Press.
10. Social Content and Psychological Content by Brian Loar was read at the Oberlin Colloquium in 1985 and originally appeared in Contents of Thought: Proceedings of the 1985 Oberlin Colloquium in Philosophy (Tucson: University of Arizona Press 1988), pp. 99110. Eds. R. Grimm and D. Merrill. Reprinted by permission of University of Arizona Press.
11. This selection by Jerry Fodor is from his book Psychosemantics (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987), pp. 2753. 1987 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Reprinted by permission of the author and MIT Press.
12. Functionalism and Broad Content by Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit originally appeared in Mind XCVII, 387 (July 1988) 382400. Reprinted by permission of the authors and Oxford University Press.
13. On Whats in the Head by Robert Stalnaker originally appeared in Philosophical Perspectives 3: Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory, ed. J. Tomberlin (Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1989), 287316. Reprinted by permission of Ridgeview Publishing Company.
14. The selection by Colin McGinn is excerpted from his book Mental Content (Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers, 1989), 15759. Reprinted by permission of Blackwell Publishers.
15. A Modal Argument for Narrow Content by Jerry Fodor originally appeared in The Journal of Philosophy LXXXVIII, 1 (January 1991) 526. Reprinted by permission of the author and The Journal of Philosophy.
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