Grounding Normativity in Biology: The Unexpressed Rules of Core Cognition

Saul Kripke’s (1982) sceptical take on Wittgenstein’s rule-following paradox challenges us to find facts that can justify one interpretation of a symbol’s past use over another. While Ruth Millikan (1990) has answered this challenge by appealing to biological purposes, her answer has been criticize...

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Autor principal:	Jean-Charles Pelland
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Publicado:	Rosenberg & Sellier 2020
Materias:	Kripkenstein biosemantics normativity biological functions core cognition numerical cognition Aesthetics BH1-301 Ethics BJ1-1725
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8fcd3e44ad7247ad9d15aa61fc1c0de32021-12-02T10:34:02ZGrounding Normativity in Biology: The Unexpressed Rules of Core Cognition10.13128/pam-80372280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/8fcd3e44ad7247ad9d15aa61fc1c0de32020-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/8037https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028 Saul Kripke’s (1982) sceptical take on Wittgenstein’s rule-following paradox challenges us to find facts that can justify one interpretation of a symbol’s past use over another. While Ruth Millikan (1990) has answered this challenge by appealing to biological purposes, her answer has been criticized for failing to account for the normativity of rules like addition, which require explicit representations. In this paper, I offer a defense of Millikan. I claim that we can explain how we build intentions to add from the content of core cognition modules like the approximate number system, and argue that Millikan’s answer is better equipped to explain the origins of rules than communitarian approaches like that endorsed by Kusch (2006). I then explore the worth of pluralism about rules and try to find common ground between expressed and unexpressed rules in terms of expectations of how the world is supposed to behave. Jean-Charles PellandRosenberg & SellierarticleKripkensteinbiosemanticsnormativitybiological functionscore cognitionnumerical cognitionAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 17 (2020)
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description	Saul Kripke’s (1982) sceptical take on Wittgenstein’s rule-following paradox challenges us to find facts that can justify one interpretation of a symbol’s past use over another. While Ruth Millikan (1990) has answered this challenge by appealing to biological purposes, her answer has been criticized for failing to account for the normativity of rules like addition, which require explicit representations. In this paper, I offer a defense of Millikan. I claim that we can explain how we build intentions to add from the content of core cognition modules like the approximate number system, and argue that Millikan’s answer is better equipped to explain the origins of rules than communitarian approaches like that endorsed by Kusch (2006). I then explore the worth of pluralism about rules and try to find common ground between expressed and unexpressed rules in terms of expectations of how the world is supposed to behave.
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Grounding Normativity in Biology: The Unexpressed Rules of Core Cognition

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