Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language at 40: (Cambridge Philosophical Anniversaries)

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:
Introduction Claudine Verheggen; 1. Kripke's Wittgenstein's skepticism about rules and meaning: in defense of the standard interpretation Alexander Miller; 2. Putting Wittgenstein back into Kripkenstein: meaning skepticism and knowing how to go on Hannah Ginsborg; 3. Answering Kripke's skeptic: dispositions without 'dispositionalism' Henry Jackman; 4. Wittgensteinean notions of uniformity and kripkensteinean skepticism James R. Shaw; 5. Wittgenstein's naturalism and the skeptical paradox Marie Mcginn; 6. Kripke and Wittgenstein on rules and meaning Gary Ebbs; 7. Semantic normativity, properly so called Daniel Whiting; 8. What is the skeptical problem? Wittgenstein's response to Kripke Claudine Verheggen; 9. How not to brush questions under the rug Olivia Sultanescu; 10. Quadders and zombies: a kripkean argument against materialism Anandi Hattiangadi; 11. Communitarianism, interpersonalism and individualism in Kripke's 'Skeptical Solution' Christopher Campbell; 12. 'Considered in isolation' Arif Ahmed; 13. The Meaning of meaning ascriptions: assertability conditions and meaning facts José L. Zalabardo; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author :
Claudine Verheggen is Professor of Philosophy at York University, Toronto. She is the co-author (with Robert Myers) of Donald Davidson's Triangulation Argument: A Philosophical Inquiry (2016), and the editor of Wittgenstein and Davidson on Language, Thought, and Action (Cambridge, 2017).