A user's guide to thought and meaning

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Foreword = ix
• Part One. Language, Words, and Meaning
• 1. Why do we need a User's Guide to thought and meaning? = 3
• 2. What's a language? = 6
• 3. Perspectives on English = 14
• 4. Perspectives on sunsets, tigers, and puddles = 18
• 5. What's a word? = 22
• 6. What counts as the same word? = 28
• 7. Some uses of mean and meaning = 32
• 8. "Objective" and "subjective" meaning = 38
• 9. What do meanings have to be able to do? = 41
• 10. Meanings can't be visual images = 51
• 11. Word meanings aren't cut and dried(You can't avoid the slippery slope) = 56
• 12. Not all the meaning is in the words = 63
• 13. Meanings, concepts, and thoughts = 70
• 14. Does your language determine your thought? = 74
• Part Two. Consciousness and Perception
• 15. What's it like to be thinking? = 81
• 16. Some phenomena that test the Unconscious Meaning Hypothesis = 87
• 17. Conscious and unconscious = 92
• 18. What does "What is consciousness?" mean? = 96
• 19. Three cognitive correlates of conscious thought = 103
• 20. Some prestigious theories of consciousness = 108
• 21. What's it like to see things? = 114
• 22. Two components of thought and meaning = 121
• 23. Seeing something as a fork = 129
• 24. Other modalities of spatial perception = 134
• 25. How do we see the world as "out there"? = 139
• 26. Other "feels" in experience = 143
• Part Three. Reference and Truth
• 27. How do we use language to talk about the world? = 155
• 28. Mismatching reference in conversation = 162
• 29. What kinds of things can we refer to?(Cognitive metaphysics, Lesson 1) = 166
• 30. Reference files for pictures and thoughts = 173
• 31. More cognitive metaphysics : Persons = 181
• 32. What's truth? = 187
• 33. Problems for an ordinary perspective on truth = 191
• 34. What's it like to judge a sentence true? = 195
• 35. Noticing something's wrong = 200
• Part Four. Rationality and Intuition
• 36. What's it like to be thinking rationally? = 207
• 37. How much rational thinking do we actually do? = 216
• 38. How rational thinking helps = 219
• 39. Some pitfalls of apparently rational thinking = 223
• 40. Chamber music = 227
• 41. Rational thinking as a craft = 232
• 42. Some speculation on science and the arts = 237
• 43. Learning to live with multiple perspectives = 243
• References and further reading = 249
• Index = 265