Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Works by Quine -- Books -- Other items -- Works by Davidson -- Books -- Other items -- Introduction -- 1 Logical pragmatism -- 1 The impact of logical positivism -- 2 The legacy of American pragmatism -- 3 Quine's naturalism -- 4 Davidson on reason's place in nature -- 5 A philosophical anthropology -- 2 Ontology -- 1 Ontological commitment and ontological parsimony -- 2 Intensions and criteria of identity -- 3 Ontology and singular terms -- 4 Ontology and quantification -- 5 Ontological deflationism -- 6 Linguistic frameworks and logical paraphrase -- 3 Analyticity, apriority and necessity -- 1 The circularity charge -- 2 Holism and truth by virtue of meaning -- 3 A linguistic account of analyticity -- 4 Holism and the a priori -- 5 The deep need for the convention -- 6 Modal logic and essentialism -- 4 Truth -- 1 The legacy of Tarski -- 2 Has Tarski defined truth? -- 3 Unbearable truth-bearers -- 4 Epistemic and correspondence theories -- 5 Deflationism and minimalism -- 5 Meaning and truth -- 1 Quine on reference, meaning and use -- 2 Davidson's truth-conditional theory of meaning -- 3 Meaning and truth-conditions -- 4 The immanence of meaning -- 5 The notion of a truth-condition -- 6 The individuation problem -- 7 Truth-conditional semantics and natural languages -- 6 Radical translation and radical interpretation -- 1 Translation runs amok -- 2 Quine's closet hermeneutics -- 3 On safari with Davidson -- 4 Charity is not enough -- 7 Indeterminacies -- 1 Does radical translation start at home? -- 2 Unsuccessful objections to indeterminacy -- 3 Scrutinizing reference I: gavagai -- 4 Scrutinizing reference II: proxy functions -- 5 Indeterminacy and underdetermination -- 8 Meaning and understanding -- 1 The extensionality problem.

2 The privations of modesty -- 3 Psychological modesty -- 4 Language, norms and conventions -- 5 Thought, causation and first-person authority -- 9 Thought and language -- 1 The intensional nature of thought -- 2 Animals, thoughts and concepts -- 3 The holistic nature of thought -- 4 Belief and the concept of belief -- References -- Index.