Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content

Contents......Page 2
Preface......Page 4
1 Belief, Meaning, and the External World......Page 7
What is Meant by the Unity of Content?......Page 9
My Externalism......Page 11
What is Meant by the Locality of Content?......Page 16
Outline of the Following Chapters......Page 19
The Threat to the Unity of Content......Page 21
The Orthodox Externalisms......Page 28
Why the Orthodox Externalisms Threaten Unity and Mine Does Not......Page 32
Some Objections to the Charge of Disunity......Page 41
Self-knowledge......Page 55
More Objections to the Charge of Disunity......Page 62
3 Society and Norm......Page 70
The Relevance of Society to Meaning and Belief......Page 71
The Relevance of Norms and Rules to Belief and Meaning......Page 89
Externalism and Theory-change......Page 128
What is the Function of Truth-theories of Meaning?......Page 136
Holism and the Locality of Content......Page 147
Truth-theories of Meaning and the Unity of Content......Page 160
The Information-communicative and Success-explanatory Functions of Content......Page 194
Motivating Externalism......Page 200
The Best Motivation for Externalism: Publicness......Page 206
A Second Epistemological Argument for Externalism......Page 219
Can Externalism Capture the First-person Point of View?......Page 231
Realism about Intentional Content......Page 241
Epilogue......Page 249
Appendix: Self-knowledge and Intentionality......Page 252
Notes......Page 259
Bibliography......Page 292
Indexes......Page 297