A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

1.Why do we need a User's Guide to thought and meaning?
.Part One: Language, Words, and Meaning
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2.What's a language?
3.Perspectives on English
4.Perspectives on sunsets, tigers, and puddles
5.What's a word?
6.What counts as the same word?
7.Some uses of mean and meaning
8."Objective" and "subjective" meaning
9.What do meanings have to be able to do?
10.Meanings can't be visual images
11.Word meanings aren't cut and dried
12.Not all the meaning is in the words
13.Meanings, concepts, and thoughts
14.Does your language determine your thought?
.Part Two: Consciousness and Perception
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15.What's it like to be thinking?
16.Some phenomena that test the Unconscious Meaning Hypothesis
17.Conscious and unconscious
18.What does "What is consciousness?" mean?
19.Three cognitive correlates of conscious thought
20.Some prestigious theories of consciousness
21.What's it like to see things?
22.Two components of thought and meaning
23.See something as a fork
24.Other modalities of spatial perception
25.How do we see the world as "out there"?
26.Other "feels" in experience
.Part Three: Reference, Truth, and Thought
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27.How do we use language to talk about the world?
28.Mismatching reference in conversation
29.What kinds of things can we refer to? (Cognitive metaphysics, Lesson 1)
30.Referential files for pictures and thoughts
31.What's truth?
32.Problems for an ordinary perspective on truth
33.What's it like to judge a sentence true?
34.Noticing something's wrong
35.What's it like to be thinking rationally?
36.How much rational thinking do we actually do?
37.How rational thinking helps
38.Chamber music
39.Rational thinking as a craft
40.Some pitfalls of apparently rational thinking
.Part IV: A Larger View
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41.Some speculation on science and the arts
42.Ordinary and cognitive perspectives on morality
43.Ordinary and cognitive perspectives on religion
44.Learning to live with multiple perspectives
.Index