Meaning and Understanding

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction / PARRET, HERMAN / BOUVERESSE, JACQUES -- I. How to Understand Understanding -- On Understanding the Difficulty in Understanding Understanding / ROSENBERG, JAY F. -- "I know what you mean, but if only I understood you ..." / GELDER, BEATRICE DE -- On the Semantic Structure of 'Meaning' and 'Understanding' / ZASLAWSKY, DENIS -- II. Explaining and Understanding 'Meaning and Understanding' -- Intentions, Conventions, and Reference to Things: Dimensions of Understanding Meaning in Hermeneutics and in Analytic Philosophy of Language / APEL, KARL-OTTO -- Herméneutique et linguistique / BOUVERESSE, JACQUES -- Understanding and Rationality / FØLLESDAL, DAGFINN -- III. Knowledge, Thought, Truth and Interpretation -- Universals of Knowledge - Contraints on Understanding? / HOLENSTEIN, ELMAR -- Principles of Conversation, Speech Acts, and Radical Interpretation / HOLDCROFT, DAVID -- Truth and the Theory of Content / SCHIFFER, STEPHEN -- IV. Beyond Frege -- Anti-Realism and the Epistemology of Understanding / MCDOWELL, JOHN -- Perspectival Understanding / PARRET, HERMAN -- Understanding Demonstratives / EVANS, GARETH -- Sens frégéen et compréhension de la langue / PROUST, JOËLLE -- V. Semantic Theory and Pragmatic Functioning of Understanding -- Strategies of Understanding / DASCAL, MARCELO -- Les conditions dialogiques de la compréhension ou le paradoxe de Narcisse / JACQUES, FRANCIS -- VI. Formal and Pragmatic Understanding of Formalisms -- Qu'est-ce que comprendre la formule: «2 + 2 = 4»? / GRANGER, GILLES G. -- The Pragmatic Understanding of Language and the Argumentative Function of Logic / KAMBARTEL, FRIEDRICH -- Understanding and the Limits of Formal Thinking / WASON, PETER E. -- General Bibliography -- Author Index -- Backmatter