Skepticism, Rules and Language

G. P. Baker, P. M. S. Hacker0631147039, 9780631147039

Table of contents :
Contents……Page 2
Preface……Page 4
1 ‘Wittgenstein’s argument as it struck Kripke’……Page 12
2 Scepticism about Wittgenstein’s ‘sceptical problem’ and ‘sceptical solution’……Page 16
3 The ‘paradox’……Page 21
4 The private language argument……Page 33
5 Kripke’s sceptical problem……Page 37
6 Kripke’s sceptical solution……Page 44
7 Robinson Crusoe rides again……Page 49
8 Further diagnosis……Page 53
9 A concluding sketch……Page 61
1 The ‘rule-following considerations’ reconsidered……Page 67
2 Rule-scepticism set up……Page 71
3 The alleged solution to the sceptical predicament……Page 76
4 Flaws in the ‘community view’……Page 82
5 Justification comes to an end……Page 91
6 The pitfalls of novelty……Page 97
7 The roots of rule-scepticism……Page 99
1 Scepticism and internal relations……Page 109
2 Internal relations and criteria……Page 117
3 The harmony between explanation and use……Page 126
4 The harmony between language and reality……Page 134
5 Übersicht……Page 143
Index……Page 148