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Anita Avramides is the Southover Manor Trust Fellow in Philosophy at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is the author of Meaning and Mind: An Examination of a Gricean Account of Language (MIT Press, 1989). Her main interests include the philosophy of mind and language, with a special interest in the problem of other minds. Paul Artin Boghossian is Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Philosophy Department at New York University. He has published several papers on the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, on such topics as rulefollowing, mental reresentation, realism about psychoogical states, self-knowledge and the nature of colour experience. Edward Craig is Reader in Modern Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1993. He is the author of The Mind of God and the Works of Man (OUP, 1987) and Knowledge and the State of Nature (OUP, 1990), as well as articles on various topics in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of language. He is Chief Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy . Graeme Forbes is Celia Scott Weatherhead Distinguished Professor at Tulane University, New Orleans. USA. He is currently working on an electronic edition of his The Metaphysics of Modality (OUP, 1985) and on a monograph about referential opacity. He is also the author of Languages of Possibility (Blackwell, ... log in or subscribe to read full text