Mind, Meaning, and Reality contains fifteen philosophical papers by D.
H. Mellor, including a new defence of 'success semantics', and an
introduction arguing that metaphysics can and need only be justified
by doing it and not by a 'meta-metaphysics', which it needs no more
than physics needs metaphysics. The papers are grouped into three
parts. Part I is about how the ways we are disposed to act fix both
what we believe and what we use language to mean. Part II is about
what there is: the reality of dispositions; what makes beliefs and
sentences true; why there is only one universe; and how social groups,
and other things composed of parts, are related to the people and
other things that constitute them. Part III is about time, and
includes discussions of twentieth century developments in the
philosophy of time; why Kant was right about tense, even though he was
wrong about time; why forward time travel is trivial and backward time
travel impossible; and what gives time its direction.
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Essays in Philosophy
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ISBN
9780191632860
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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