Wittgenstein, Kripke and the Private Language Argument
M. Losonsky
Readings witha "*" are reprinted in:
Miller, A and Wright, C (eds.). 2002. Rule-Following and Meaning. London: Acumen.
1. October 2
Introduction: Private Languages
2. October 9
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 143, 145-155, 179-192, 197-208, 212-219.
Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 243-314.
3. October 16
Kripke, Saul. 1982. "The Wittgensteinian Paradox." InWittgenstein on Rules and Private Language, 754.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
4. October 23
*Blackburn, Simon. 1984. `The Individual Strikes Back', Synthese, : ­58 281 301
5. October 30
Wright, Crispin. 1984. "Kripke's Account of the Argument Against Private Language." Journal of
Philosophy 81: 759-778.
Bain, David. 2004. "Private Languages and Private Theorists." Philosophical Quarterly 54 : 427-434.
6. November 6
*McDowell, John. 1984. "Wittgenstein on Following a Rule." Synthese 58: 325-63.
7. November 13
*Boghossian, Paul. 1989. "The Rule-Following Considerations." Mind, 98: 507-549
8. November 22
Hale, Robert. 1997. "Rule-Following, Objectivity and Meaning." In Hale and Wright, eds, A
Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 369-396. Oxford: Blackwell
9. November 27
McDowell, John. 1992. "Meaning and Intentionality in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy." Midwest
Studies in Philosophy, 17: 40-52.
Miller, Alexander. 2004. "Rule-Following and Externalism." Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research 68: 127-140
10. December 4
Chomsky, Noam. 1986. "Questions about Rules." In Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and
Use, 221-75. London: Praeger.
11. December 11
Millikan, Ruth Garret. 1990. "Truth, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox." Philosophical
Review 99: 323-53.
12. December 18
*Zalabardo, José. 1997. "Kripke's Normativity Argument." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 28: 467-
88
Hanna, Patricia and Harrison, Bernard. 2004. "Knowledge of Rules." Chapter 8 in Word and World:
Practice and the Foundations of Language, pp.159-90. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press