Mind, Meaning, and Knowledge Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright

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Pub. Date: 2012-11-25
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Summary

This volume is a collective exploration of major themes in the work of Crispin Wright, one of today's leading philosophers. These newly commissioned papers are divided into four sections, preceded by a substantial Introduction, which places them in the context of the development of Wright's ideas. The distinguished contributors address issues such as the rule-following problem, knowledge of our meanings and minds, truth, realism, anti-realism and relativism, as well as the nature of perceptual justification, the cogency of arguments such as G. E. Moore's celebrated proof of an external world, and skepticism about the material world. Some papers explore the relationship of Wright's ideas with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose influence has always been a prominent aspect of Wright's philosophy. The essays collectively testify to the enormous interest and relevance of Wright's seminal contributions for present-day debates in areas as diverse as the philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, and epistemology, and significantly advance research in these areas. The volume also contains Wright's substantial responses to his critics, which offer the most up-to-date versions of his ideas and a vigorous defense of his philosophy.

Author Biography


Annalisa Coliva is Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) and Associate Director of COGITO Research Centre in Philosophy (Bologna). A Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Coliva's main publications include Moore and Wittgenstein: Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (Palgrave, 2010) and, as editor, The Self and Self-Knowledge (OUP, 2012). She has published widely in Italian and English in epistemology, philosophy of mind and language, and history of analytic philosophy and is now working, with Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, on a collected volume titled Hinge Epistemology: Basic Beliefs After Moore and Wittgenstein.

Table of Contents


List of contributors
Introduction
Bio-bibliographical note
Rule-Following and the Normativity of Meaning
1. Blind rule-following, Paul A. Boghossian
2. Understanding and rule-following, Christopher Peacocke
3. Regularities, rules, meanings, truth conditions, and epistemic norms, Paul Horwich
4. Why meaning intentions are degenerate, Akeel Bilgrami
Knowledge of Our Own Minds and Meanings
5. The publicity of meaning and the interiority of mind, Barry C. Smith
6. Expression, truth, and reality: some variations on themes from Wright, Dorit Bar-On
Truth, Objectivity, and Relativism
7. Some remarks about minimalism, Simon Blackburn
8. Objectivity, explanation, and cognitive shortfall, Stewart Shapiro
9. How to formulate relativism, Carol Rovane
Warrant, Transmission Failure, and Scepticism
10. When warrant transmits, Jim Pryor
11. Wright on Moore, José L. Zalabardo
12. Moore's Proof, liberals, and conservatives - is there a (Wittgensteinian) third way?, Annalisa Coliva
13. Wright against the sceptics, Michael Williams
Replies Crispin Wright
Part I: The Rule-Following Considerations and the Normativity of Meaning
Part II: Knowledge of Our Own Minds and Meanings
Part III: Truth, Objectivity, Realism, and Relativism
Part IV: Warrant Transmission and Entitlement
Index

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