Facing Facts

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 Facts will be crucial to future work in metaphysics, logic, and the philosophy of mind and language, and will have profound implications far beyond.

Stephen Neale is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University.

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