Body, Mind, and Method Essays in Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich
Simple seeing. Plain talking. Language in use and persons in action. These are among the themes of Virgil Aldrich's writings, from the 1930's onward. Throughout these years, he has been an explorer of conceptual geography: not as a foreign visitor studyin
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SYNTHESE LIBRARY
STUDIES IN EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, METHODOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Managing Editor:
JAAKKO HINTIKKA,
Florida State University
Editors: ROBERT S. COHEN, DONALD DAVIDSON,
Boston University University of Chicago
GABRIEL NUCHELMANS, WESLEY C. SALMON,
University ofLeyden
University ofArizona
VOLUME 138
VIRGIL C. ALDRICH
BODY, MIND, AND METHOD Essays·in Honor of Virgil C. Aldrich
Edited by DONALD F. GUSTAFSON AND BANGS L. TAPSCOTT
D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT: HOLLAND / BOSTON: U.S.A. LONDON: ENGLAND
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Body, mind, and method. (Synthese library; 138) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Philosophy-Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Mind and body-Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Aldrich, Virgil C.-Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Aldrich, Virgil C. II. Gustafson, Donald F., 1934III. Tapscott, Bangs L., 1935B29.B583 110 79-18832 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-90775-8 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4612-5767-7 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5767-7
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FRED I. DRETSKE / Simple Seeing
1
ALAST AIR HANNAY / The 'What' and the 'How' T. M. REED
I Dreams, Scepticism, and Waking life
KAI NIELSEN
I Reasonable Belief Without Justification
17 37 65
I The Unnaturalness of Epistemology
77
DANIEL DENNETT I On the Absence of Phenomenology
93
GODFREY VESEY / Wittgenstein on Psychological Verbs
115
DOUGLAS C. LONG I Agents, Mechanisms, and Other Minds
129
DONALD GUSTAFSON / 'Pain', Grammar, and Physicalism
149
ST ANLEY MUNSAT / Memory and Causality
167
JOHN V. CANFIELD / Calculations, Reasons and Causes
179
BANGS L. TAPSCOTT / Deterministic Predictions
197
KEITH GUNDERSON / Purposes and Poetry
203
GUY SIRCELLO / Beauty and Sex
225
RICHARD RORTY
ROBERT HOWELL / Fictional Objects: How They Are and How
/They Aren't
241
VIRGIL C. ALDRICH: A Biographical Sketch
295
AN ALDRICH BIBLIOGRAPHY
297
INDEX OF NAMES
301
INDEX OF SUBJECTS
305
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PREFACE
Simple seeing. Plain talking. Language in use and persons in action. These are among the themes of Virgil Aldrich's writings, from the 1930's onward. Throughout these years, he has been an explorer of conceptual geography: not as a foreign visitor studying an alien land, but close up 'in the language in
