Mark Wilson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Wandering Significance (OUP 2006). He has written widely on the relationships that bind together science, language and mathematics. He formerly edited the North American Traditions Series for Rounder records.

Wandering Significance (OUP, 2006), and now this book establish Mark Wilson as the moral compass of analytic philosophy. Both volumes are so wondrously rich in argument, incorporating such an abundance of fascinating detail, as to resist any compressed joint summary. But taken together they comprise a many-count indictment of reigning philosophical complacency while opening up broad new horizons for investigation . . . what he has given analytic philosophy is a prolonged blast of artic air that signals change of paradigm.

• 1: Pragmatics' Place at the Table 2: Physics Avoidance 3: From the Bending of Beams to the Problem of Free Will 4: Two Cheers for Anti-Atomism 5: The Greediness of Scales 6: Believers in the Land of Glory 7: Is There Life in Possible Worlds? 8: Semantic Mimicry 9: A Second Pilgrim's Progress

Mark Wilson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Wandering Significance (OUP 2006). He has written widely on the relationships that bind together science, language and mathematics. He formerly edited the North American Traditions Series for Rounder records.

Wandering Significance (OUP, 2006), and now this book establish Mark Wilson as the moral compass of analytic philosophy. Both volumes are so wondrously rich in argument, incorporating such an abundance of fascinating detail, as to resist any compressed joint summary. But taken together they comprise a many-count indictment of reigning philosophical complacency while opening up broad new horizons for investigation . . . what he has given analytic philosophy is a prolonged blast of artic air that signals change of paradigm.

• 1: Pragmatics' Place at the Table 2: Physics Avoidance 3: From the Bending of Beams to the Problem of Free Will 4: Two Cheers for Anti-Atomism 5: The Greediness of Scales 6: Believers in the Land of Glory 7: Is There Life in Possible Worlds? 8: Semantic Mimicry 9: A Second Pilgrim's Progress