Meaning, Understanding, and Practice is a selection of the most notable essays of an eminent contemporary philosopher on a set of central topics in analytic philosophy. Barry Stroud offers penetrating studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of though…
"Meaning, Understanding, and Practice is a selection of the most notable essays of a leading contemporary philosopher on a set of central topics in the subject. Barry Stroud offers studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought. One question runn…
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.
For centuries philosophers have attempted to derive concepts from perceptual representations but have failed to explain how the mind generates the building blocks of thought. Gauker addresses this problem in a new account of imagistic cognition. He shows that much of cognition o…