MEANING AND TRUTH: SOME FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES
[A more detailed sketch of the issues – and their motivation – will follow! All the literature is available through the University Library. Anything which is not available on-line will be made available in the form of master-copies. Starred (*) material is for background purposes, and only a portion of it will be read.]
I. Deflationary Conceptions of Truth and Meaning
Field, H. (1978). ‘Mental Representation’ (Erkenntnis, 13, 9-61) plus the Postscript (both found in his Truth and the Absence of Fact, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001).
_______ (1994). ‘Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content’ (Mind, 103, 249-85) plus the Postscript (both found in his Truth and the Absence of Fact, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001).
Horwich, P.G. (1998). Truth, 2nd edn, Chapters 1, 2 and 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
________,‘The Minimalist Conception of Truth’ (Postscript to Truth).
________, ‘A Use Theory of Meaning’, in his Reflections on Meaning, Oxford: OUP, 2005.
Paul Pietroski, ‘The Undeflated Domain of Semantics’, Sats: Nordic Journal of Philosophy, (from Pietroski’s web-page).
II. Representation (or Content) in Cognitive Science
Craik, Kenneth(1967), The Nature of Explanation, Chapter 5: Hypothesis on the nature of thought, pp. 50-61, Cambridge University Press, 1st updated edition.
*Duncan Luce, R. and Patrick Suppes(2002), ‘Representational Measurement Theory’, in John Wixted (ed.) Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Third Edition, Volume 4: Methodology in Experimental Psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Epstein, William(1995) ‘The Metatheoretical Context’, in W. Epstein and Sheena Rogers (eds.), Perception of Space and Motion, Academic Press.
Gallistel, C.R.(1990), The Organization of Learning, Chapter two: ‘Representation’. MIT Press.
Gallistel, C.R. and Adam Philip King(2009), Memory and the Computational Brain, Chapter 7: Computation, Wiley-Blackwell.
Hochberg, Julian(1981), ‘Levels of Perceptual Organization’, pp. 255- 278 in Michael Kubovy and James R. Pomerantz, Perceptual Organization. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1981.
*Krantz, David H., R. Duncan Luce, Patrick Suppes and Amos Tversky(2006), The Foundations of Measurement, Volume 1, Chapter 1 (pp. 1-37 ). Dover Publications.
Kubovy, Michael and William Epstein(2001), ‘Internalization: A metaphor we can live without’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 618-625.
Marr, David (1982). Vision. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman.
Palmer, Stephen E. (1978), ‘Fundamental Aspects of Cognitive Representation’, in Eleanor Rosch (ed.), Cognition and Categorization.
Palmer, Stephen E. and Ruth Kimchi (1986), ‘The Information Processing Approach to Cognition’. In Terry J. Knapp and Lynn C. Robertson (eds.), Approaches to Cognition: Contrasts and Controversies, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey. pp. 37-77
*Pollock, John L., Technical Methods in Philosophy, Chapter One: Set Theory, Westview Press, 1990.
Pomerantz, James R. and Micheal Kubovy(1981), ‘Perceptual Organization: An Overview’, pp. 423- 456 in Michael Kubovy and James R. Pomerantz, Perceptual Organization. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Shepard, Roger N. and Susan Chapman(1970), ‘Second-Order Isomorphism in Internal Representations: Shapes of States’, Cognitive Psychology 1, 1-17.
Shepard, Roger N. (1975), ‘Form, Formation, and Transformation of Internal Representations’. Pp. 87-122 In Robert L. Solso (ed.), Information Processing and Cognition: The Loyola Symposium. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Shepard, Roger N. (1981), ‘Psychological Complementarity’, pp. 279-341, in Michael Kubovy and James R. Pomerantz, Perceptual Organization. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey.
Shepard, Roger N. (2001), ‘Perceptual-cognitive universals as reflections of the world’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2001), 24, 581-601
*Suppes, Patrick and Joseph L. Zinnes(1962), ‘Basic Measurement Theory’, Technical Report No. 45, Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences, Stanford University. March 15.
III. Fregean and Non-Fregean solutions to the problem(s) of cognitive significance. (I.e. is a notion of sense required to account for cognitive significance?).
Burge, T. (1977). ‘Belief De Re,’ The Journal of Philosophy 74, pp. 338-362.
________(2005). ‘Disjunctivism and Perceptual Psychology’, Philosophical Topics, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1-77.
Fodor, Jerry A. (2008), LOT2: The Language of Thought Revisited, Chapter 3, ‘LOT Meets Frege’s Problem (Among Others)’, pp. 50-100, Oxford University Press 2008.
Frege, G. (1952). ‘On Sense and Reference’, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege, 21-41.
________ (1980), Letter to Jourdain, undated. In Brian McGuinness (ed.) Gottlob Frege: Philosophical and Mathematical Correspondence, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 78-80.
Heck, Richard G. (2012). ‘Solving Frege’s Puzzle’, Journal of Philosophy, 132-174.
Sainsbury, M. (2005). Reference without Referents, Chapter 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sainsbury, M. and Tye, M. (2012). Seven Puzzles of Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press.