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. Allan Gibbard offers an expressivist explanation of these 'oughts': he borrows devices from metaethics to illuminate deep problems at the heart of the philosophy of language and thought.
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. Allan Gibbard offers an expressivist explanation of these 'oughts': he borrows devices from metaethics to illuminate deep problems at the heart of the philosophy of language and thought.
Allan Gibbard is Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Reconciling our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics (OUP, 2008), Thinking How to Life (Harvard, 2003), and Wise Choices, Apt Feelings (Harvard/OUP, 1990).
Inhaltsangabe
1: Introduction 2: Normativity and Community 3: Kripke's Wittgenstein on Meaning 4: Correct Belief 5: Horwich on Meaning 6: The Normative Meaning Role 7: 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
1: Introduction 2: Normativity and Community 3: Kripke's Wittgenstein on Meaning 4: Correct Belief 5: Horwich on Meaning 6: The Normative Meaning Role 7: 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
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