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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
One: Basic Metaphysics: Reality and Truth
The Enlightenment Vision: Reality and Its Intelligibility
Introducing Philosophy
The Default Positions
Reality and Truth: The Default Position
Four Challenges to Realism
Skepticism, Knowledge, and Reality
Is There Any Justification for External Realism?
Beyond Atheism
Two: How We Fit into the Universe: The Mind as a Biological Phenomenon
Three Features of Consciousness
A Clash of Default Positions: The Mind-Body Problem
The Irreducibility of Consciousness
The Danger of Epiphenomenalism
The Function of Consciousness
Consciousness, Intentionality, and Causation
Three: The Essence of the Mind: Consciousness and Its Structure
Three Mistakes About Consciousness
Structural Features of Consciousness
The Field of Consciousness and the Binding Problem
Consciousness and Value
Four: How the Mind Works: Intentionality
Consciousness and Intentionality
Naturalizing Intentionality: Another Clash of Default Positions
Intentionality Naturalized as a Biological Phenomenon
The Structure of Intentional States
Intentional Causation
The Background of Intentionality
Five: The Structure of the Social Universe: How the Mind Creates an Objective Social Reality
Social and Institutional Reality
Observer-Dependency and the Building Blocks of Social Reality
A Simple Model of the Construction of Institutional Reality
The Example of Money
How Institutional Reality Can Be So Powerful
Solutions to the Problem and the Puzzles
Six: How Language Works: Speech as a Kind of Human Action
Speech Acts: Illocutionary Acts and Perlocutionary Acts
The Meanings of “Meaning”
Meaning and Communication
Various Types of Speech Acts
Constitutive Rules and Symbolism
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Suggestions For Further Reading
Realism and Truth
Consciousness
Intentionality
Meaning and Speech Acts
Social Reality
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