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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459440803321

Titolo

Rule-following and meaning / / edited by Alexander Miller and Crispin Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-48964-0

1-317-48965-9

1-315-71067-6

1-282-92136-3

9786612921360

1-84465-335-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerAlexander <1965->

WrightCrispin <1942->

Disciplina

121.68

Soggetti

Ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by Acumen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; The Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Skepticism and Semantic Knowledge; 3 The Individual Strikes Back; 4 Wittgenstein on Following a Rule; 5 Wittgenstein, Kripke and Non-Reductionism about Meaning; 6 Kripke on Wittgenstein on Rules; 7 Critical Notice of Colin McGinn's Wittgenstein on Meaning; 8 Meaning and Intention as Judgement Dependent; 9 The Rule-Following Considerations; 10 The Reality of Rule-Following; 11 Truth Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox; 12 Kripke on Wittgenstein on Normativity

13 Meaning, Use and Truth14 Kripke's Normativity Argument; Guide to Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The rule-following debate, in its concern with the metaphysics and epistemology of linguistic meaning and mental content, goes to the heart of the most fundamental questions of contemporary philosophy of mind and language. This volume gathers together the most important contributions to the topic, including papers by Simon



Blackburn, Paul Boghossian, Graeme Forbes, Warren Goldfarb, Paul Horwich, John McDowell, Colin McGinn, Ruth Millikan, Philip Pettit, George Wilson, Crispin Wright, and Jose Zalabardo. The debate has centred on Saul Kripke's reading of the rule-following sections in Wittgenst