01309nam a2200289 a 4500 EDZ0000115751 StDuBDS 20150804193924.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121220s2012 enk fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780191741968 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS B105.M4 121.68 23 Gibbard, Allan. Meaning and normativity [electronic resource] / Allan Gibbard. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 1 online resource. The concepts of meaning and mental content resist naturalistic analysis. This is because they are normative: they depend on ideas of how things ought to be. This text offers an explanation of these 'oughts', borrowing devices from metaethics to illuminate deep problems at the heart of the philosophy of language and thought. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Jan. 4, 2013). Includes bibliographical references and index. Meaning (Philosophy) Normativity (Ethics) Print version 9780199646074 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199646074.001.0001 36867 36867