The Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jody Azzouni.
• Authors: Azzouni, Jody
• Contents: Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: General Introduction; Chapter 2: Kripke's Version of Wittgenstein's Paradox and His Solution; 2.1 Setting Up the Problem: Three Constraints on Any Solution; 2.2 Why Introspective Resources Are Insufficient for a Response to Meaning Scepticism; 2.3 How Kripke's Three Constraints Block Dispositional Approaches; 2.4 An Attempted Defense of Dispositional Approaches to Meaning Scepticism; 2.5 The Failure of a Straight Sociological Solution to the Rule-Following Paradox; 2.6 Assertability Conditions, Not Truth Conditions. Chapter 3: Two Versions of Robinson Crusoe3.1 A Community of Idiolects; 3.2 Robinson Crusoe in Empirically Favorable Circumstances; 3.3 A Robinson Crusoe with Two Sets of Dispositions That He Has Conscious Access to; 3.4 What Does "Better Matching the World" Mean to Crusoe 2?; 3.5 Introspection; 3.6 Last Remarks; Chapter 4: Reference Magnetism; 4.1 A Second Family of Straight Solutions to the Rule-­Following Problem: Reference-Magnetism Approaches; 4.2 Can Crusoe Use the Way Things Are in the World as Standards for His Words? 4.3 A Top-Down Approach to Reference-Magnetism: Williams's Interpretationalism4.4 Moorean Considerations Plus the Only Game in Town Argument; 4.5 Concluding Remarks; Chapter 5: How Positive Success Curves Enable Private Rule Following; 5.1 A Robinson Crusoe with Continuously Varying Dispositions that He Has Conscious Access to; 5.2 A Robinson Crusoe with Plpci Dispositions That He Has-at Best-Inferential Access to; 5.3 Being Guided by Rules Rather Than Compelled by Them; 5.4 Is It Misleading to Describe the Standards for Crusoe 5's Words as "External Ones"? Chapter 6: Truth and Falsity Attributions and Truth-ƯConditional Semantics in Private Languages6.1 How Crusoe 5 Speaks of the Truth and Falsity of His Own Statements and How He Talks About What His Words Refer to; 6.2 Truth Conditions, Bivalence, and the Broad Ignorance Thesis-Applied to Our Own Language; 6.3 Tarski Biconditionals and Truth-Conditional Semantics-Applied to Our Own Language; 6.4 Tarski Biconditionals and Truth-Conditional Semantics-Applied to Crusoe 5's Language; 6.5 Some Concluding Remarks; Chapter 7: Correspondence Metaphysics and the Cogency of a God's Eye View. 7.1 Introduction7.2 Contrastivist and Noncontrastivist Views of Private Languages; 7.3 Is Our Concept of a God's Eye View Coherent?; 7.4 Epistemic Modesty; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 110; Philosophy; Metaphysics; Linguistics_xPhilosophy; Ontology; Metaphysics; Philosophy -- Metaphysics; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy of language; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Criticism and interpretation; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319490618; 3319490613
• Related ISBNs: 9783319490601; 3319490605
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