Meaning and Normativity by Allan Gibbard (English) Paperback Book

Description: Meaning and Normativity by Allan Gibbard 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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, Kripkes Wittgenstein suggests, is because the concept of meaning is normative, on the ought side of Humes divide between is and ought. Allan Gibbards previous books Wise Choices, Apt Feelings and Thinking How to Livetreated 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 expressstates 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 witheach other. Author Biography Allan Gibbard is Richard B. Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Reconciling our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics (OUP, 2008), Thinking How to Life (Harvard, 2003), and Wise Choices, Apt Feelings (Harvard/OUP, 1990). Table of Contents 1: Introduction2: Normativity and Community3: Kripkes Wittgenstein on Meaning4: Correct Belief5: Horwich on Meaning6: The Normative Meaning Role7: Reference, Truth, and Context8: Meaning and Plans9: Interpreting Interpretation10: Expressivism, Non-Naturalism, and UsAppendix 1: The Objects of BeliefAppendix 2: Schroeder on ExpressivismReferencesIndex Review `The book is rich in original ideas and arguments, and the topics canvassed or commented on are significant and bewildering in their number ... serious students of the relevant topics should find its study rewarding, and clearly it is essential reading for anyone working on meaning and normativity.Teemu Toppinen, Ethics`the most ambitious and innovative attempt to explain meaning since Paul Horwich and Robert Brandom developed their theories in the nineties ... I hope that this splendid book will find a wide audience. It is wonderfully stimulating, opening up vast new territories for investigation.Christopher S. Hill, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Long Description 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, Kripkes Wittgenstein suggests, is because the concept of meaning is normative, on the ought side of Humes divide between is and ought. Allan Gibbards previous books Wise Choices, Apt Feelings and Thinking How to Livetreated 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 howthe 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 assomething to expect from beings like us, complexly social products of natural selection who talk with each other. Review Text `the most ambitious and innovative attempt to explain meaning since Paul Horwich and Robert Brandom developed their theories in the nineties ... I hope that this splendid book will find a wide audience. It is wonderfully stimulating, opening up vast new territories for investigation.Christopher S. Hill, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Review Quote "the most ambitious and innovative attempt to explain meaning since Paul Horwich and Robert Brandom developed their theories in the nineties ... I hope that this splendid book will find a wide audience. It is wonderfully stimulating, opening up vast new territories for investigation." --Christopher S. Hill, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Feature A groundbreaking new theory from a leading philosopherAt the intersection of philosophy of language and metaethicsA long-awaited development in the field Details ISBN0198708025 Author Allan Gibbard Year 2014 ISBN-10 0198708025 ISBN-13 9780198708025 Format Paperback Media Book Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom Short Title MEANING & NORMATIVITY Language English Affiliation University of Michigan Illustrations black & white illustrations DEWEY 170.44 UK Release Date 2014-10-02 AU Release Date 2014-10-02 NZ Release Date 2014-10-02 Pages 328 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2014-10-02 Imprint Oxford University Press Alternative 9780199646074 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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