Wittgenstein’: Mind, Meaning and Metaphilosophy

Of Mind and Meaning

Mind , Meaning , and the Brain

PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH over the past two decades demonstrates the power of the neurobiological paradigm. However, this progress is connected with a restricted field of vision typical of any scientific paradigm. The psychiatrist should be aware of this restriction, because, unlike the brain scientist, he deals with patients, not with brains. The restricted view may be described by the terms ...

Naturalized metaphilosophy

Traditional representations of philosophy have tended to prize the role of reason in the discipline. These accounts focus exclusively on ideas and arguments as animating forces in the field. But anecdotal evidence and more rigorous sociological studies suggest there is more going on in philosophy. In this article, we present two hypotheses about social factors in the field: that social factors ...

Meaning, Communication and Theory of Mind

The study of language, meaning and communication in the cognitive sciences has undergone a kind of conceptual inflation in the past twenty years or so. Not only has the very nature of human communication come to be seen as, in many respects, Gricean, but also linguistic meaning itself has come to be widely regarded in terms of the effect of language use on mental states. As a result, a more or ...

Meaning, Logic, and the Systematization of Law: Kelsen, Wittgenstein and Information Architecture

This paper discusses the systematization of law from the perspectives of linguistic meaning and logic, by focusing on themes from two leading theorists of the last century from Vienna, Hans Kelsen and Ludwig Wittgenstein. The paper illustrates how theories of meaning and logic can influence one’s view of law as a system, and can influence the development of an information architecture for legal...