0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

Oughts and Thoughts - Rule-Following and the Normativity of Content (Hardcover, New): Anandi Hattiangadi Oughts and Thoughts - Rule-Following and the Normativity of Content (Hardcover, New)
Anandi Hattiangadi
R2,895 Discovery Miles 28 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Oughts and Thoughts, Anandi Hattiangadi provides an innovative response to the argument for meaning scepticism set out by Saul Kripke in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. Kripke asks what makes it the case that anybody ever means anything by any word, and argues that there are no facts of the matter as to what anybody ever means. Kripke's argument has inspired a lively and extended debate in the philosophy of language, as it raises some of the most fundamental issues in the field: namely, the reality, privacy, and normativity of meaning. Hattiangadi argues that in order to achieve the radical conclusion that there are no facts as to what a person means by a word, the sceptic must rely on the thesis that meaning is normative, and that this thesis fails. Since any 'sceptical solution' to the sceptical problem is irremediably incoherent, Hattiangadi concludes that there must be a fact of the matter about what we mean. In addition to providing an overview of the debate on meaning and content scepticism, Hattiangandi presents a detailed discussion of the contributions made by Simon Blackburn, Paul Boghossian, Robert Brandom, Fred Dretske, John McDowell, and Crispin Wright, among others, to the controversy surrounding Kripke's argument. The issues considered include the normativity of meaning and its relation to the normativity of moral judgments, reductive and non-reductive theories of meaning, deflationism about truth and meaning, and the privacy of meaning.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Teaching Strategies For Quality Teaching…
Roy Killen, Annemarie Hattingh Paperback R562 R530 Discovery Miles 5 300
The Library Suicides
Fflur Dafydd Paperback R462 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210
Generating Transworld Pedagogy…
Belinda Bustos Flores, Olga A. Vasquez, … Hardcover R3,902 R2,746 Discovery Miles 27 460
Charlotte Moss Flowers
Charlotte Moss Hardcover R1,314 R1,093 Discovery Miles 10 930
Born For Greatness
Gerald J. Maarman Paperback R195 R180 Discovery Miles 1 800
About Orchids - A Chat
Frederick Boyle Hardcover R796 Discovery Miles 7 960
My Walks with Remi - Book Two…
Cindy J Anderson Paperback R455 R421 Discovery Miles 4 210
Application of Cathodoluminescence…
Sam Boggs, David Krinsley Hardcover R3,273 Discovery Miles 32 730
Stratigraphy
J.P.A. Noble Paperback R1,747 Discovery Miles 17 470
Geseend Is Die Wat Treur
Susan Jordaan Paperback R265 R249 Discovery Miles 2 490

 

Partners