Mind, meaning, and reality: essays in philosophy
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
Xlii
Introduction
1
1
What is philosophy?
1
2
Untestable identities
2
3
Science and metaphysics
3
4
Methodology
5
5
Meta-philosophy
8
Part I: Mind and Meaning
1
Nothing Like Experience
10
1
Introduction
10
2
Knowing what it s like
11
3
Recognising and imagining experiences
12
4
Recalling experiences
13
5
Knowing how and knowing that
14
6
Know-how and the limits of science
16
7
Imagination
17
8
The nature of experience
19
2
What Does Subjective Decision Theory Tell Us?
22
1
The question
22
2
The right thing to do
23
3
Being reasonable
25
4
The case against a descriptive SDT
28
5
The case for a descriptive SDT
30
3
How to Believe a Conditional
34
1
Introduction
34
2
Adams
34
3
Two belief theories
36
4
The disposition theory
37
5
Dispositions and truth conditions
38
6
Simule
conditionals
39
7
Dispositions
and beliefs
41
8
Complex conditionals
43
9
A methodological objection
44
10
Adams revisited
44
4
Telling the truth
47
5
Successful Semantics
60
1
Introduction
60
2
Causal functionalism
61
3
The causation of actions
63
4
Fine-grained actions
65
5
Actions, intentions, and success
66
6
Ramsey s Principle
68
7
Objections to Ramsey s Principle
71
8
Limitations of Ramsey s Principle
74
9
Successful semantics
75
Part II: What There Is
6
The Semantics and Ontology of Dispositions
78
1
Introduction
78
2
Dispositions and conditionals
79
3
Multi-conditional dispositions
81
4
Reduction sentences
83
5
Dispositions and properties
85
6
Dispositional and categorical properties
87
7
Properties and laws
88
8
The ontology of fragility
91
9
Temperature: a real disposition
93
10
Overdetermination
94
7
Truthmakers for What?
96
1
Introduction
96
2
Truthmaking and entailment
96
3
Truthmaking and truth
97
4
Ontological commitment
99
5
Realism
100
6
Truthmakers and truth conditions
102
7
Direct and indirect truthmaking
103
8
The merits of moderation
104
9
Primary propositions: atomic
107
10
Primary propositions: molecular
109
11
Laws of nature
110
12
Generalisations 111
8
Too Many Universes
113
1
Universes and the multiverse
113
2
Existence, location, and ultimate explanations
114
3
Explanations and probabilities
115
4
A prerequisite of chances
116
5
An improbable argument
117
6
Facing the firing squad
118
9
The Reduction of Society
120
1
Reduction
120
2
Reduction and laws
121
3
Reduction and ontology
122
4
People
123
5
Microreduction and the unity of science
124
6
Groups
126
7
Groups, sets, and abstract objects
127
8
Groups and people
129
9
Wholes and parts
130
10
The limits of sociology
133
11
The reduction of sociology
134
12 Holist
objections
137
10
Wholes and Parts: The Limits of Composition
142
1
Part-whole relations
142
2
The formal properties of part-whole relations
145
3
Unrestricted composition?
146
11
Micro-composition
151
151
152
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
1
Introduction
2
Containment
3
Causation
4
Working parts
5
Significant effects
6
Vagueness
7
Microreduction
8
Supervenience
9
Supervenience and vagueness
10
Supervenience and microreduction
159
11
Microreduction,
causation, and laws
160
12
Contingency and indeterminism
161
Part III: Time
12
Time
1
Space, time, and relativity
2
Cosmology and the present
3
Time and change
4
The ontology of the A-series
5
The semantics of the A-series
6
What
А
-beliefs do for us
7
Time and causation
8
Epilogue
163
163
166
169
170
172
176
178
180
13
Transcendental Tense
182
1
Is time no object?
182
2
Kantian tenses
185
3
Time and concepts of time
186
14
Time Travel
190
1
The passing of time
190
2
Forward time travel
191
3
Backward time travel
193
4
The direction of time
195
5
Soluble problems of time travel
199
6
Time travel: the insoluble problem
203
15
The Direction of Time
206
1
Formalities
206
2
Extrinsic and intrinsic differences
206
3
The flow of time
207
4
The expansion of the universe
208
5
Increasing entropy
208
6
Irreversibility
209
7
Seeing the direction of time
210
8
Causal and temporal order
211
9
Causation and time
212
10
Conclusion
215
References
217
Index
227
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