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Meaning and normativity /

The concepts of meaning and mental content resist naturalistic analysis. This is because they are normative: they depend on ideas of how things ought to be. This text offers an explanation of these 'oughts', borrowing devices from metaethics to illuminate deep problems at the heart of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gibbard, Allan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Normativity and community
  • 3. Kripke's Wittgenstein on meaning
  • 4. Correct belief
  • 5. Horwich on meaning
  • The normative meaning role
  • Reference, truth, and context
  • 8. Meaning and plans
  • 9. Interpreting interpretation
  • 10. Expressivism, non-naturalism, and us
  • Appendix 1: The objects of belief
  • Appendix 2: Schroeder on expressivism
  • References
  • Index.