Truth in Virtue of Meaning

The distinction between analytic and synthetic sentences - the idea that some sentences are true or false just in virtue of what they mean - is a famous focus of philosophical controversy. Gillian Russell reinvigorates the debate with a challenging new defence of the distinction, showing that it is compatible with semantic externalism.

Gillian Russell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St Louis.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I: The Positive View
1: The 'in virtue of' Relation
2: Meaning
3: Beyond Modality
A: The Formal System
II: A Defence
4: The Spectre of "Two Dogmas"
5: Definitions
6: More Arguments Against Analyticity
III: Work for Epistemologists
7: Analytic Justification