According to Amie Thomasson’s modal normativism, the function of modal discourse is to convey semantic rules. But what is a "semantic rule"? I raise three worries according to which there is no conception of a semantic rule that can serve the needs of a modal normativist. The first worry focuses on de re and a posteriori necessities. The second worry concerns Thomasson's inferential specification of the meaning of modal terms. The third worry asks about the normative status of semantic rules
In the middle of the last century, it was common to explain the notion of necessity in linguistic te...
We can approach the topic of necessity and meaning by distinguishing three kinds of view about the r...
According to a venerable tradition in philosophy and linguistics, expressions have meaning through b...
According to Amie Thomasson’s modal normativism, the function of modal discourse is to convey semant...
According to Amie Thomasson's Modal Normativism (MN), knowledge of metaphysical modality is to be ex...
In recent work, Amie Thomasson has defended what she calls normativism about metaphysical modality. ...
Norms and Necessity, by Amie Thomasson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 232
What is the normativity of (linguistic) meaning? What exactly does this thesis (that meaning is norm...
Kripke (1982: 37) famously contrasts norms with mere\ud dispositions: although the manifest disposit...
Each of the three main chapters of this thesis is concerned with a different style of theorising abo...
In his recent John Locke Lectures, Robert Brandom defends a view of pragmatism as an extension of th...
This is a dissertation on the semantics of modality and related topics. Each of the three chapters t...
The question of whether meaning is inherently normative has become a central topic in philosophy and...
250 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.The logical form of an alethi...
Here we focus on two questions: What is the proper semantics for deontic modal expressions in Englis...
In the middle of the last century, it was common to explain the notion of necessity in linguistic te...
We can approach the topic of necessity and meaning by distinguishing three kinds of view about the r...
According to a venerable tradition in philosophy and linguistics, expressions have meaning through b...
According to Amie Thomasson’s modal normativism, the function of modal discourse is to convey semant...
According to Amie Thomasson's Modal Normativism (MN), knowledge of metaphysical modality is to be ex...
In recent work, Amie Thomasson has defended what she calls normativism about metaphysical modality. ...
Norms and Necessity, by Amie Thomasson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi + 232
What is the normativity of (linguistic) meaning? What exactly does this thesis (that meaning is norm...
Kripke (1982: 37) famously contrasts norms with mere\ud dispositions: although the manifest disposit...
Each of the three main chapters of this thesis is concerned with a different style of theorising abo...
In his recent John Locke Lectures, Robert Brandom defends a view of pragmatism as an extension of th...
This is a dissertation on the semantics of modality and related topics. Each of the three chapters t...
The question of whether meaning is inherently normative has become a central topic in philosophy and...
250 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980.The logical form of an alethi...
Here we focus on two questions: What is the proper semantics for deontic modal expressions in Englis...
In the middle of the last century, it was common to explain the notion of necessity in linguistic te...
We can approach the topic of necessity and meaning by distinguishing three kinds of view about the r...
According to a venerable tradition in philosophy and linguistics, expressions have meaning through b...