Meaning and Normativity |
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| Author:
| Gibbard, Allan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-964607-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2012 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $111.77AUD $169.95 |
Book Description:
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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.