The Rei(g)n of ‘Rule’ (eBook)

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1. Why norms are not conventions and conventions are not norms 18
1.1 The tension of normativity 18
1.2 Two concepts of arbitrariness: Saussure and Lewis 20
1.3 Can conventions become norms? 29
1.4 Rules 32
2. Cavell on normative necessity: The philosopher, the baker, and the pantomime of caution 36
2.1 “I am less interested now in the “mean” than I am in the “must”” 36
2.2 “Here the pantomime of caution concludes” 38
2.3 “…the hopelessness of speaking, in a general way, about the “normativeness” of expressions” 40
II. Rules as conventions vs. rules as norms in the rule-following debates 46
3. What is a rule and what ought it to be 46
3.1 The reduction of rules to conventions vs. the reduction of rules to norms 46
3.2 Kripke: The reduction of rules to conventions1 47
3.3 Baker and Hacker: The reduction of rules to norms 59
3.4 Meredith Williams on normative necessity 70
3.5 Cora Diamond: Rules and their right place 82
III. Twisted Language 90
4. Davidson on rules, conventions and norms 90
4.1. Normativity without conventionality 90
4.2 Communication without rules or conventions 90
4.3 “The second person” vs. the community view 97
4.4 The two kinds of normativity 100
4.5 The unpacking of ‘ought’18 106
4.6 Normativity without norms 109
5. Searle on rules (of rationality, conversation and speech acts) 116
5.1 The shortcut argument against rule 116
5.2 Is language a rule governed form of behavior or is it not? 117
5.3 (No) Rules of conversation 118
5.4 Background brought to the foreground 123
Conclusion 126