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Truth,
Meaning and Understanding
Essays in Philosophical Semantics
C. Pradhan |
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book deals with the problems in philosophical semantics.
Its central concern is to provide a unified theory
of meaning. The concepts of truth and reference find
a special place in this theory. The main contention
is that meaning, like truth, is a substantial notion
in our conceptual scheme. Meaning absorbs the elements
of reference within its global structure. The author
attempts to show that meaning is co-eval with language
and is, therefore, like language, autonomous. The
study of meaning is a study of language and grammar.
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| Preface
1. Truth and Language: A Wittgensteinian Analysis
2. Truth Theory and Interpretation
3. Jennings on Tarski- A Response
4. Remarks on Davidson's Defence of Convention T
5. Truth in Bivalent Models
6. Availability of a Theory of Truth in Indian Epistemology
7. Knowledge, Justification and Truth
8. Meaning, Experience and Understanding
9. A Framework for a Truth-Conditional Theory of Meaning
10. Mind, Meaning and Behaviour
11. A Note on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Grammar
12. What it is to be a Brain in a Vat
13. The Nature of Philosophical Knowledge
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Dr. R.C. Pradhan had his studies at Banaras Hindu University.
He did his M.A. with First Class holding First Rank
in 1973. He obtained Ph.D. degree in 1977 for his work
on the Philosophy of Wittgenstein. He served as Lecturer
in Philosophy in Utkal University during 1979-83 and
then as Reader in Karnatak University during 1983-87.
At present he is working as Reader in the Department
of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad. He was the Commonwealth
Academic Staff Fellow during 1990-91 at the University
of Oxford. He has published several papers in national
and international journals. He is the author of Language
and Experience: An Interpretation of the Later Philosophy
of Wittgenstein (1981). His main area of study
is Philosophy of Language with special emphasis on Wittgenstein.
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