On the normativity of semantic norms and intentions
| dc.contributor.author | Keyzer, Jonathan, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Losonsky, Michael, advisor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kasser, Jeff, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | MacDonald, Brad, committee member | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-03T05:55:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-01-03T05:55:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis clarifies the assumption that meaning is normative and defends this assumption from recent criticism by Anandi Hattiangadi and Akeel Bilgrami. Against Hattiangadi, I argue that the paradigmatic examples of moral and semantic obligations are strictly-speaking more like 'limit' hypotheticals in that having an obligation is contingent on some conditions, but these conditions are quite different than that those of the typical examples of means-end hypotheticals. I argue that the conditions relevant to limit hypotheticals are widely-satisfied by constitutive facts about beings with certain rational and linguistic competence like us. The 'limitation' is that being this kind of thing isn't something one chooses, but is a constitutive for what one is. Against Bilgrami, I argue that a meaning intention is a normative state of commitment. Having a meaning intention means that one is prepared to speak and being prepared to speak is something one must live up to by having and maintaining a plan. I argue that part of this plan is to make some minimal effort to be interpretable to others. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | masters theses | |
| dc.identifier | Keyzer_colostate_0053N_11787.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10217/80253 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2000-2019 | |
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| dc.subject | meaning | |
| dc.subject | Kripke | |
| dc.subject | language | |
| dc.subject | normativity | |
| dc.subject | rule-following | |
| dc.subject | Wittgenstein | |
| dc.title | On the normativity of semantic norms and intentions | |
| dc.type | Text | |
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| thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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