Includes bibliographical references (p. [392]-397) and index.
pt. 1. Truth, meaning and propositional attitudes. -- Tarski's Theory of Truth -- Mental representation -- Stalnaker on intentionality -- Deflationist theories of meaning and content -- Attributions of meaning and content -- pt. 2. Indeterminacy and factual defectiveness. Theory Change and the Indeterminacy of Reference -- Quine and the Correspondence Theory -- Disquotational truth and factually defective discourse -- Some thoughts on radical indeterminacy -- Indeterminacy, degree of belief, and excluded middle -- pt. 3. Objectivity. Mathematical objectivity and mathematical objects -- Which undecidable sentences have determinate truth values? -- Apriority as an evaluative notion.
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"Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen essays on a set of related topics at the foundations of philosophy; one essay is previously unpublished, and eight are accompanied by substantial new postscripts. Five of the essays are primarily about truth, meaning, and propositional attitudes, five are primarily about semantic indeterminacy and other kinds of 'factual defectiveness' in our discourse, and three are primarily about issues concerning objectivity, especially in mathematics and in epistemology."--Jacket.