Preface ........................................................ xv
1. Introduction ................................................. i
2. Dispositions and conditionals ............................... 12
3. Truthmakers and disposition lines: From quark to
colleague ................................................... 24
4. Parts and wholes ............................................ 35
5. Causality ................................................... 46
6. The road to Pythagoreanism and back ......................... 54
7. Linguisticism and Pythagoreanism ............................ 80
8. Protolanguage ............................................... 93
9. Use, representational use, and content ..................... 111
10.Emergence, reduction, mental chauvanism .................... 129
11.Dispositional systems ...................................... 140
12.Two jokes explained ........................................ 158
13.Tactile-motor-kinaesthetic perception ...................... 162
14.Verbal imagery ............................................. 166
15.Mind in nature: A new view of the mind ..................... 177
16.Warps and woofs of Einstein ................................ 194
References .................................................... 199
Index ......................................................... 207
Index of Names ................................................ 216
Index of Topics ............................................... 218
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