Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40

Claudine Verheggen

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009103220
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Mind & Body in Philosophy

Saul Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is one of the most celebrated and important books in philosophy of language and mind of the past forty years. It generated an avalanche of responses from the moment it was published and has revolutionized the way in which we think about meaning, intentionality, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It introduced a series of questions that had never been raised before concerning, most prominently, the normativity of meaning and the prospects for a reductionist account of meaning. This volume of new essays reassesses the continuing influence of Kripke's book and demonstrates that many of the issues first raised by Kripke, both exegetical and philosophical, remain as thought-provoking and as relevant as they were when he first introduced them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Kripke’s Wittgenstein’s Skepticism about Rules and Meaning: In Defense of the Standard Interpretation*
• 2 Putting Wittgenstein Back into Kripkenstein: Meaning Skepticism and Knowing How to Go On
• 3 Answering Kripke’s Skeptic: Dispositions without ‘Dispositionalism’
• 4 Wittgensteinean Notions of Uniformity and Kripkensteinean Skepticism*
• 5 Wittgenstein’s Naturalism and the Skeptical Paradox
• 6 Kripke and Wittgenstein on Rules and Meaning
• 7 Semantic Normativity, Properly So Called
• 8 What Is the Skeptical Problem? Wittgenstein’s Response to Kripke
• 9 How Not to Brush Questions under the Rug
• 10 Quadders and Zombies: A Kripkean Argument against Physicalism
• 11 Communitarianism, Interpersonalism, and Individualism in Kripke’s “Skeptical Solution”
• 12 “Considered in Isolation”
• 13 The Meaning of Meaning Ascriptions
• Bibliography
• Index