Meaning, Understanding, and Practice
Subtitle: Philosophical Essays
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: June 30, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780198250340
First sentence: Michael Dummett has described Wittgenstein's account of logical necessity as a 'full-blooded conventionalsm'.
Description: "Meaning, Understanding, and Practice is a selection of the most notable essays of a leading contemporary philosopher on a set of central topics in the subject. Barry Stroud offers studies of meaning, understanding, necessity, and the intentionality of thought. One question running through many of the essays is how much can be expected from a philosophical account of a person's understanding the meaning of something, and whether it can succeed without implying that the person understands many other things as well. Five of the essays focus on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and at least that many others work with ideas derived from Wittgenstein.

In a helpful introduction Stroud explains how the essays are related to one another and how some of his ideas about these questions developed over the years."--Jacket.