Through detailed and trenchant criticism of standard
interpretations of some of the key arguments in analytical
philosophy over the last sixty years, this book arrives at a new
conception of the proper starting point and task of the philosophy
of language.
To understand central topics in the philosophy of language and
mind, Gary Ebbs contends, we must investigate them from our
perspective as participants in shared linguistic practices; but our
efforts at adopting this participant perspective are limited by our
lingering loyalties to metaphysical realism (the view that we can
make objective assertions only if we can grasp metaphysically
independent truth conditions) and scientific naturalism (the view
that it is only within science that reality can be identified and
described). In "Rule-Following and Realism," Ebbs works to loosen
the hold of these views by exposing their roots and developing a
different way of looking at our linguistic practices.
Reexamining and extending influential arguments by Saul Kripke,
W. V. Quine, Rudolf Carnap, Hilary Putnam, and Tyler Burge, Ebbs
presents systematic redescriptions of our linguistic practices that
transform our understanding of such central topics as
rule-following, the analytic-synthetic distinction, realism,
anti-individualism, the division of linguistic labor,
self-knowledge, and skepticism.
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