Meaning, understanding, and practice : philosophical essays / Barry Stroud.
| Author/creator | Stroud, Barry |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. |
| Description | xviii, 234 pages ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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) -- The background of thought (1991) -- Quine on exile and acquiescence (1995) -- Mind, meaning, and practice (1996) -- The theory of meaning and the practice of communication (1998) -- Private objects, physical objects, and ostension (2000). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 99059017 |
| ISBN | 0198250347 |