Rule-following and Meaning

ISBN-13: 9781902683508 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Alexander Miller, Crispin Wright