A Sceptical Guide To Meaning And Rules

Author : Martin Kusch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781315478845

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A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules by Martin Kusch Pdf

No other recent book in Anglophone philosophy has attracted as much criticism and has found so few friends as Saul Kripke's "Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language". Amongst its critics, one finds the very top of the philosophical profession. Yet, it is rightly counted amongst the books that students of philosophy, at least in the Anglo-American world, have to read at some point in their education. Enormously influential, it has given rise to debates that strike at the very heart of contemporary philosophy of mind and language. In this major new interpretation, Martin Kusch defends Kripke's account against the numerous weighty objections that have been put forward over the past twenty years and argues that none of them is decisive. He shows that many critiques are based on misunderstandings of Kripke's reasoning; that many attacks can be blocked by refining and developing Kripke's position; and that many alternative proposals turn out either to be unworkable or to be disguised variants of the view they are meant to replace. Kusch argues that the apparent simplicity of Kripke's text is deceptive and that a fresh reading gives Kripke's overall argument a new strength.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199809066

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Rule-Following: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study Philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibligraphies.com.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199809189

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Later Works: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study Philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibligraphies.com.

Author : Alexander Miller,Crispin Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317489658

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Rule-following and Meaning by Alexander Miller,Crispin Wright Pdf

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 Wittgenstein and his consequent posing of a sceptical paradox that threatens our everyday notions of linguistic meaning and mental content. These essays are attempts to respond to this challenge and represent some of the most important work in contemporary theory of meaning. With an introductory essay and a comprehensive guide to further reading this book is an excellent resource for courses in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, and metaphysics, as well as for all philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists with interests in these areas.

Author : Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1189 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118974711

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 2 Volume Set by Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller Pdf

“Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.

Author : G. Anthony Bruno,A.C. Rutherford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351976275

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Skepticism by G. Anthony Bruno,A.C. Rutherford Pdf

Skepticism is one of the most enduring and profound of philosophical problems. With its roots in Plato and the Sceptics to Descartes, Hume, Kant and Wittgenstein, skepticism presents a challenge that every philosopher must reckon with. In this outstanding collection philosophers engage with skepticism in five clear sections: the philosophical history of skepticism in Greek, Cartesian and Kantian thought; the nature and limits of certainty; the possibility of knowledge and related problems such as perception and the debates between objective knowledge and constructivism; the transcendental method as a response to skepticism and the challenge of naturalism; overcoming the skeptical challenge. Skepticism: Historical and Contemporary Inquiries is essential reading for students and scholars in epistemology and the history of philosophy and will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as religion and sociology.

Author : James R. Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197609989

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Wittgenstein on Rules by James R. Shaw Pdf

"The goal of this book is to develop a new approach to reading the rule-following sections guided by a simple idea. The simple idea is that Wittgenstein's remarks on rule-following are split between two distinct but complementary projects. The projects are marked not only by different guiding questions, but different presuppositions and methodologies. There is of course precedent for reading the rule-following remarks as comprising two parts. For example, there is the reading of (S. Kripke 1982) on which Wittgenstein first presents a skeptical challenge before turning to its skeptical solution. And there are readings like (Minar 2011) and (Goldfarb 2012) that likewise treat the sections as roughly divided into two components or "chapters." But even these commentators do not explicitly associate their components with different questions and associated methodologies, and so fall short of attributing to Wittgenstein's text anything quite like the thoroughgoing bipartite structure I will be proposing here"--

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674954017

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Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

Table of Contents " Preface " Introductory " The Wittgensteinian Paradox " The Solution and the 'Private Language' Argument " Postscript Wittgenstein and Other Minds " Index.

Author : Marius Bartmann
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030733353

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Wittgenstein’s Metametaphysics and the Realism-Idealism Debate by Marius Bartmann Pdf

This book develops a new Wittgenstein interpretation called Wittgenstein’s Metametaphysics. The basic idea is that one major strand in Wittgenstein’s early and later philosophy can be described as undermining the dichotomy between realism and idealism. The aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of the relation between language and reality and to open up avenues of dialogue to overcome deep divides in the research literature. In the course of developing a comprehensive and in-depth interpretation, the author provides fresh and original analyses of the latest issues in Wittgenstein scholarship and gives new answers to both major exegetical and philosophical problems. This makes the book an illuminating study for scholars and advanced students alike.

Author : Gordon P. Baker,P. M. S. Hacker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118854594

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Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity by Gordon P. Baker,P. M. S. Hacker Pdf

The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's complex and controversial remarks on following rules. Includes thoroughly rewritten essays and the addition of one new essay on communitarian and individualist conceptions of rule-following Includes a greatly expanded essay on Wittgenstein’s conception of logical, mathematical and metaphysical necessity Features updates to the textual exegesis as the result of taking advantage of the search engine for the Bergen edition of the Nachlass Reflects the results of scholarly debates on rule-following that have raged over the past 20 years

Author : Alex Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134271146

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Philosophy of Language by Alex Miller Pdf

This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study in philosophy. Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches to meaning, the book provides students with the tools necessary to understand contemporary analytical philosophy. The second edition includes new material on: Chomsky, Wittgenstein and Davidson as well as new chapters on the causal theory of reference, possible worlds semantics and semantic externalism.

Author : Alex Miller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134271153

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Philosophy of Language by Alex Miller Pdf

This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study in philosophy. Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches to meaning, the book provides students with the tools necessary to understand contemporary analytical philosophy. The second edition includes new material on: Chomsky, Wittgenstein and Davidson as well as new chapters on the causal theory of reference, possible worlds semantics and semantic externalism.

Author : Michał Araszkiewicz,Paweł Banaś,Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki,Krzysztof Płeszka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319093758

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Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule-Following by Michał Araszkiewicz,Paweł Banaś,Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki,Krzysztof Płeszka Pdf

This book focuses on the problems of rules, rule-following and normativity as discussed within the areas of analytic philosophy, linguistics, logic and legal theory. Divided into four parts, the volume covers topics in general analytic philosophy, analytic legal theory, legal interpretation and argumentation, logic as well as AI& Law area of research. It discusses, inter alia, “Kripkenstein’s” sceptical argument against rule-following and normativity of meaning, the role of neuroscience in explaining the phenomenon of normativity, conventionalism in philosophy of law, normativity of rules of interpretation, some formal approaches towards rules and normativity as well as the problem of defeasibility of rules. The aim of the book is to provide an interdisciplinary approach to an inquiry into the questions concerning rules, rule-following and normativity.

Author : Adam Rieger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031545573

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Themes from Weir: A Celebration of the Philosophy of Alan Weir by Adam Rieger Pdf

Author : Michael Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139459808

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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language by Michael Morris Pdf

In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.