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Meaning and Normativity (Paperback)
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What does talk of meaning mean? All thinking consists in natural
happenings in the brain. Talk of meaning though, has resisted
interpretation in terms of anything that is clearly natural, such
as linguistic dispositions. This, Kripke's Wittgenstein suggests,
is because the concept of meaning is normative, on the 'ought' side
of Hume's divide between is and ought. Allan Gibbard's previous
books Wise Choices, Apt Feelings and Thinking How to Live treated
normative discourse as a natural phenomenon, but not as describing
the world naturalistically. His theory is a form of expressivism
for normative concepts, holding, roughly, that normative statements
express states of planning. This new book integrates his
expressivism for normative language with a theory of how the
meaning of meaning could be normative. The result applies to
itself: metaethics expands to address key topics in the philosophy
of language, topics which in turn include core parts of metaethics.
An upshot is to lessen the contrast between expressivism and
nonnaturalism: in their strongest forms, the two converge in all
their theses. Still, they differ in the explanations they give.
Nonnaturalists' explanations mystify, whereas expressivists render
normative thinking intelligible as something to expect from beings
like us, complexly social products of natural selection who talk
with each other.
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