As meaning's claim to normativity has grown increasingly suspect the normativity thesis has
shifted to mental content. In this paper, we distinguish two versions of content …

Normativism in the theory of meaning and content is the view that linguistic meaning and/or
intentional content are essentially normative. As both normativity and its essentiality to …

In the middle of the 20th century, it was a common Wittgenstein‐inspired idea in philosophy
that for a linguistic expression to have a meaning is for it to be governed by a rule of use …

Many philosophers have assumed, without argument, that Wittgenstein influenced Austin.
More often, however, this is vehemently denied, especially by those who knew Austin …

The first part of the article examines some recent studies on the early development of social
norms that examine young children's understanding of codified rule games. It is argued that …

An experimental paradigm that purports to test young children's understanding of social
norms is examined. The paradigm models norms on Searle's notion of a constitutive rule …

The overall goal of this article is to show that aesthetics plays a major role in a debate at the
very center of philosophy. Drawing on the work of David Bell, the article spells out how Kant …

This book develops a novel theory of intentionality. It argues that intentionality is an internal
essential relation of constitution between an intentional state and an object, or between such …

Lon L. Fuller challenged the positivist distinction between the law “as it is” and the law “as it
ought to be” by insisting on the need for interpretation even in easy cases of adjudication …

In this paper, I present a game-theoretic solution to the rule-following paradox in terms of
what I will call basic constitutive practices. The structure of such a practice P constitutes what …