Truth, Meaning and Realism: Essays in the Philosophy of Thought
A.C. Grayling is one of Britain's leading thinkers, highly regarded as a public philosopher of distinction as well as in academic circles for his scholarly work on Descartes, Berkeley, Russell and Wittgenstein, his writings on the problem of scepticism, his widely used Introduction to Philosophical Logic and (as editor) his two volume Philosophy and (as chief editor) the Continuum Encyclopaedia of British Philosophy.\ \ This book serves as an excellent guide to Grayling's main...
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"Too many gifted colleagues publish too little for fear of not having every nut and bolt tightened into place: those who venture ideas as if they were letters to friends, trying out a way of thinking about something, and knowing that they will learn from the mistakes they make, do more for the conversation and themselves thereby."
Preface VAssertion, truth and evaluation 1Metaphysically innocent representation 17Truth and evaluation 31Truth and indefinability 39Concept-reference and natural kinds 55Publicity, stability, and 'knowing the meaning' 77Explicit speaker theory 91Understanding realism 109On how not to be realistic 131Evidence and judgement 157Index 171
