Facing Facts [Hardcover]

Stephen Neale presents a powerful, original examination of a cornerstone of modern philosophy: the idea that our thoughts and utterances are representations of reality, that accurate or true representations are those that correspond to the facts.Facing Factswill be crucial to future work in metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of mind and language, and will have profound implications far beyond.

Preface
1. The End of Representation
2. Davidson: Truth, Correspondence, Representation
3. Frege: Composition, Reference, Truth
4. Russell: Facts, Abbreviations, Descriptions
5. G?del: Facts and Descriptions
6. Extensionality
7. Principles of Inference
8. Connective Proofs and Logical Equivalence
9. Connective Proofs and G?delian Equivalence
10. Descriptions and Equivalence
11. Facts Revisited
Glossary
References, Index

Neale's book is written with such thoroughness, clarity, and rigor...No one with an interest in intensionality or the semantics of descriptions will want to miss this book. --John MacFarlane,Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Neale's book is meticulous in its scholarship, compellingly written and rigorously argued...It demands to be read by anyone interested in slingshot arguments. --New Books

Stephen Nealeis Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University.