Introduction Introductory Essay: Communal Agreement and Objectivity, Christopher M. Leich, Steven H. Holtzman; Part one Following a Rule: The Basic Themes; Chapter I ::, Gordon Baker; Chapter II ::, Christopher Peacocke; Part two Following a Rule: Objectivity and Meaning; Chapter III Rule-Following, Objectivity and the Theory of Meaning, Crispin Wright; Chapter IV ::, Gareth Evans; Part three Following a Rule and Ethics; Chapter V *Much of § 3 of this paper is adapted from my ‘Virtue and reason’, the Monist, 62, No. 3 (July 1979); I am grateful to the Editor and Publisher of the Monist for permission to use the material here. In revising the paper I read at the conference, I have been unable to resist trying to benefit from some of Simon Blackburn's thoughtful comments; but most of the changes are merely cosmetic., John McDowell; chapter VI Reply: Rule-Following and Moral Realism, Simon Blackburn; Part four Following a Rule and the Social Sciences; chapter VII Understanding and Explanation in The Geisteswissenschaften, Charles Taylor; chapter VIII ::, Philip Pettit;
Steven H. Holtzman (ed.) is a Graduate Student at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Christopher M. Leich (ed.) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University