Table of Contents
Foreword vii
Preface xi
1 Language and Thought: Some Reflections on Venerable Themes 1
The First Cognitive Revolution
The Second Cognitive Revolution
The Language Faculty
Unification Problems
Knowledge of Language
2 Language and Nature 41
Naturalism and Language-World Relations: Weak and Strong Theses
The Materialist Orthodoxy
The Externalist Orthodoxy
Language as a Natural Object
3 Writers and Intellectual Responsibility 71
4 Goals and Visions 91
Goals versus Visions
The 'Humanistic Conception'
'The New Spirit of the Age'
Voices of Resistance
'Tough Love'
5 Democracy and Markets in the New World Order 121
'Enduring Truths'
Markets in the Real World
Democracy: 'Containing the People'
'Free Market Conservatism'
Towards the End of History: the Utopia of the Masters
6 The Middle East Settlement: Its Sources and Contours 171
'What We Say Goes'
The Strategic Conception
'Stalemate'
'Victor's Peace': the Oslo Agreements
Terror and Punishment
Development Programs and Plans
'Human Dust and the Waste of Society'
7 The Great Powers and Human Rights: the Case of East Timor 219
Forbidden Territory
Asian Values
Western Values
'The Welfare of the World Capitalist System' and 'The Problem of Indonesia'
The Problem Solved
The Problem of East Timor
8 East Timor and World Order 265
The Rule of Law
International Responsibilities
Pragmatism and National Interest
Endnotes 289
Index 303