There is an underlying assumption in the social sciences that consciousness and social life
are ultimately classical physical/material phenomena. In this ground-breaking book …

In this study two strands of inferentialism are brought together: the philosophical doctrine of
Brandom, according to which meanings are generally inferential roles, and the logical …

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of
compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts …

Normativism in the theory of meaning and content is the view that linguistic meaning and/or
intentional content are essentially normative. As both normativity and its essentiality to …

Suppose that the expression'green'means green. It follows immediately that the
expression'green'applies correctly only to these things (the green ones) and not to those (the …

The Scope of the Project The concept of holism is at the centre of far-reaching changes in
various areas of philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. Holism in …

Grounding Concepts tackles the issue of arithmetical knowledge, developing a new position
which respects three intuitions which have appeared impossible to satisfy simultaneously: a …

Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic thinkers. He developed a
systematic picture of the human mind and its relation to the world, an original and sustained …

The term “meaning holism” is generally applied to views that treat the meanings of all of the
words in a language as interdependent. Holism draws much of its appeal from the way in …

Externalism is widely endorsed within contemporary philosophy of mind and language.
Despite this, it is far from clear how the externalist thesis should be construed and, indeed …