LANGUAGE AND PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Language, Mind, and Machines -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The notion of natural language -- 3 Conceptual investigation -- 4 Language as a 'universal medium' -- 5 Linguistic communication and solipsism -- 6 The mental and the physical -- 7 The idea of artificial intelligence -- 8 Machine behaviour and human action -- 9 Turing's test -- 10 Calculation versus mechanical symbol manipulation -- 11 Deceptive criticism of AI -- 12 Different senses of 'action' -- 13 Logical rules and conditions -- 2 Notions of Language and Theories of Meaning -- 1 A priori theories of meaning versus naturalistic theories of language -- 2 Theory of meaning versus conceptual investigation -- 3 Confusion of the perspectives of linguistics and philosophy -- 4 Some philosophical prejudices -- 5 Languages with 'specified structure' -- 6 Form and content of sentences -- 7 The notion of literal meaning -- 8 Indeterminacy of the form of expressions -- 9 Idealization in science and philosophy -- 10 Sentences of a language versus formulas of a calculus -- 11 Language-learning and rule-following -- 12 The dispute over realism in mathematics -- 3 Form and Content in Mathematics -- 1 Word-language and mathematical content -- 2 The transfinite as an idealization -- 3 Mathematical reality -- 4 Potential infinity -- 5 The finite and the infinite -- 6 Form, function, and generality -- 7 Mathematical induction -- 8 Numbers and numerals -- 9 Languages and formal systems -- 10 Computability and decidability -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.