Forthcoming in The Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy) Semantics, Conceptual Role Ned Block Department of Philosophy New York University Abstract According to Conceptual Role Semantics ( CRS ), the meaning of a representation is the role of that representation in the cognitive life of the agent, e.g. in perception, thought and decision-making. It is an extension of the well known use theory ...

The Meanings of Logical Constants GILBERT HARMAN It seems to illuminate the meanings of logical constants to say how they contribute to the truth conditions of propositions containing them, as in the account of certain sentential connectives such as truth functions, the Frege-Tarski analysis of quantification, Kripke's semantics for modal operators in a quantified modal logic, and Davidson's ...

Nonsolipsistic) Conceptual Role Semantics GILBERT HARMAN Princeton University WHAT IS (NONSOLIPSISTIC) CONCEPTUAL ROLE SEMANTICS In this paper I will defend what I shall call `(nonsolipsistic) conceptual role semantics'. This approach involves the following four claims: (1) The meanings of linguistic expressions are determined by the contents of the concepts and thoughts they can be used to ...