The Rule-following paradox and its implications for metaphysics / Jody Azzouni.

Author
Azzouni, Jody [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
viii, 128 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-124) and index.
    Contents
    • General introduction
    • Kripke's version of Wittgenstein's paradox and his solution
    • Setting up the problem : three constraints on any solution
    • Why introspective resources are insufficient for a response to meaning scepticism
    • How Kripke's three constraints block dispositional approaches
    • An attempted defense of dispositional approaches to meaning scepticism
    • The failure of a straight sociological solution to the rule-following paradox
    • Assertability conditions, not truth conditions
    • Two versions of Robinson Crusoe
    • A community of idiolects
    • Robinson Crusoe in empirically favorable circumstances
    • A Robinson Crusoe with two sets of dispositions that he has conscious access to
    • What does "better matching the world" mean to crusoe 2?
    • Introspection
    • Last remarks
    • Reference magnetism
    • A second family of straight solutions to the rule-following problem : reference-magnetism approaches
    • Can crusoe use the way things are in the world as standards for his words?
    • A top-down approach to reference-magnetism : Williams's interpretationalism
    • Moorean considerations plus the only game in town argument
    • Concluding remarks
    • How positive success curves enable private rule following
    • A robinson crusoe with continuously varying dispositions that he has conscious access to
    • A Robinson Crusoe with plpci dispositions that he has : at best : inferential access to
    • Being guided by rules rather than compelled by them
    • Is it misleading to describe the standards for crusoe 5's words as "external ones"?
    • Truth and falsity attributions and truth-conditional semantics in private languages
    • How crusoe 5 speaks of the truth and falsity of his own statements and how he talks about what his words refer to
    • Truth conditions, bivalence, and the broad ignorance thesis : applied to our own language
    • Tarski biconditionals and truth-conditional semantics : applied to our own language
    • Tarski biconditionals and truth-conditional semantics : applied to crusoe 5's language
    • Some concluding remarks
    • Correspondence metaphysics and the cogency of a god's eye view
    • Introduction
    • Contrastivist and noncontrastivist views of private languages
    • Is our concept of a god's eye view coherent?
    • Epistemic modesty
    • References.
    ISBN
    • 3319490605
    • 9783319490601
    OCLC
    1004237540
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