Skepticism Rules And Private Languages
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Skepticism, Rules, and Private Languages
Author: Patricia Hogue Werhane
language: en
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Release Date: 1992
Patricia Werhane synthesizes much of later Wittgensteinian thought, bringing together disparate arguments into a coherent text. Keeping in mind what Wittgenstein set out to accomplish in his later writings, the introduction of new material on the private language arguments, and the philosophical significance of these claims, Werhane develops the thesis that the notion of a rule is such a constitutive of language that a private language is impossible. Such a conclusion challenges many contemporary readings of the Philosophical Investigations by bringing into question conventionalism, linguistic relativism, and idealism while defending the thesis that the notion of a private psychological experience makes sense.
Rule-Following Skepticism in Contemporary Epistemology
Author: Gopal Sahu
language: en
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Release Date: 2017-01-01
The book explains the much talked about rule-following skepticism and its attempted solutions in the contemporary epistemology. Kripke’s rule-following skeptic, by demonstrating the possibility of multiple interpretations of a given rule, poses serious problem for rule-governed behaviours and objectivity and necessity of knowledge. Kripke’s skepticism is equally applicable to Goodman’s new riddle of induction and Quine’s indeterminacies. After a critical discussion of different suggested solutions the book aims to provide a straight-solution to the problem from a Wittgensteinian perspective. It argues that the necessity and objectivity of knowledge can be recognized by noting the universal aspect of rules. The normativity of the linguistic rules is provided in the form of human commitment to rules and their following. One and the same sentence can be shown to be true, empirically, analytically and metaphysically in the language. Thus, it provides the highest order of necessity, which includes metaphysical, scientific and the logical. The book will benefit the philosophers and social scientists in theoretical understanding of issues related to rule and its following, framing policies and guidelines.