Overview

The rule-following topic goes to the heart of the most fundamental questions of contemporary philosophy of mind and language, thus concerning the metaphysics and epistemology of linguistic meaning and mental context. This volume of essays seeks to gather the important contributions to the debates surrounding the topic of rule-following and meaning. The debates have centred on Saul Kripke's reading of the rule-following sections in Wittgenstein, which presents a ""sceptical paradox"" that threatens to undermine completely our everyday notions of linguistic meaning and mental content, with the notion of meaning, as Kripke puts it ""vanished into thin air"". These essays, from leading philosophers in the field, are an attempt to respond to this challenge and together they represent some important work in contemporary theory of meaning. The essays examine a wide range of central issues including the notion of meaning; whether it is possible to find a suitable meaning-constituting fact from our previous behaviour or mental histories; objections to, and defences of, dispositional accounts of meaning; the plausibility of non-factualism about meaning; and the sources of the normativity which attaches to meaning, such as the linguistic practice of the community or the dispositions of the individual. With an introductory essay and a comprehensive guide to further reading, this is designed as a resource for final-year undergraduates taking courses in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, and metaphysics, as well as postgraduates and professional philosophers with interests in these areas.

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Author:   Alexander Miller ,  Crispin Wright ,  Aleander Miller ,  Crispin Wright
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Acumen Publishing Ltd
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781902683508

ISBN 10:   1902683501
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   30 April 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1. Introduction Alexander Miller 2. Scepticism and semantic knowledge Graeme Forbes 3. The individual strikes back Simon Blackburn 4. Wittgenstein on following a rule John McDowell 5. Wittgenstein, Kripke and nonreductionism about meaning Colin McGinn 6. Kripke on Wittgenstein on rules Warren Goldfarb 7. Critical notice of McGinn's ""Wittgenstein on Meaning"" Crispin Wright 8. Meaning and intention as judgement-dependent Crispin Wright 9. The rule-following considerations Paul Boghossian 10. The reality of rule-following Philip Pettit 11. Truth rules, hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein paradox Ruth Millikan 12. Kripke on Wittgenstein on normativity George Wilson 13. Meaning, use and truth Paul Horwich 14. Kripke's normativity argument Jose Zalabardo Index"

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""Addresses isssues of central importance to contemporary work in analytic philosophy of mind, language and metaphysics, and there is no other anthology on these issues that takes account of Kripke's work and the ensuing literature."" - David Davies, McGill University

Addresses isssues of central importance to contemporary work in analytic philosophy of mind, language and metaphysics, and there is no other anthology on these issues that takes account of Kripke's work and the ensuing literature. - David Davies, McGill University

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