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Author Stroud, Barry.

Title Meaning, understanding, and practice : philosophical essays / Barry Stroud.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Wittgenstein and logical necessity (1965) -- Conventionalism and the indeterminacy of translation (1968) -- Inference, belief, and understanding (1979) -- Evolution and the necessities of thought (1981) -- Wittgenstein's 'Treatment' of the quest for 'a language which describes my inner experiences and which only I myself can understand' (1983) -- Wittgenstein on meaning, understanding, and community (1990) -- Quine's Physicalism (1990) -- Meaning, understanding, and translation (1990) -- Background of thought (1991) -- Quine on exile and acquiescence (1995) -- Mind, meaning, and practice (1996) -- Theory of meaning and the practice of communication (1998) -- Private objects, physical objects, and ostension (2000).
Summary This selection of essays on central topics in analytic philosophy offers studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought. The author makes particular reference to the thought of Wittgenstein.
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Subject Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Meaning (Philosophy)
Comprehension (Theory of knowledge)
Comprehension (Theory of knowledge)
Necessity (Philosophy)
Necessity (Philosophy)
Thought and thinking.
Thought and thinking.
Philosophy of mind.
Philosophy of mind.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Essays.
Essays.
Other Form: Print version: Stroud, Barry. Meaning, understanding, and practice. Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2000 0198250347 9780198250340 (DLC) 99059017 (OCoLC)42892251
ISBN 9780191520204 (electronic book)
0191520209 (electronic book)
0198250347 0199252149 9780199252145
9780198250340