ABSTRACT

Mark Platts is responsible for the first systematic presentation of truth-conditional semantics and for turning a generation of philosophers on to the Davidsonian program. He is also a pioneer in discussions of moral realism, and has made important contributions to bioethics, the philosophy of human rights and moral responsibility. This book is a tribute to Platts’s pioneering work in these areas, featuring contributions from number of leading scholars of his work from the US, UK and Mexico. It features replies to the individual essays from Platts, as well as a concluding chapter reflecting on his philosophical career from Oxford to Mexico City. Mind, Language and Morality will be of interest to philosophers across a wide range of areas, including ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of law, and philosophy of language.

chapter 2|13 pages

Platts on Kant and Mandeville

chapter 3|23 pages

Wrong Direction?

A Criticism of Direction of Fit

chapter 4|10 pages

Equality as a Foundation of Ethics

chapter 8|18 pages

Wittgenstein on Rule Following

Some Themes and Some Reactions

chapter 9|33 pages

Kantian Neuroscience and Radical Interpretation

Ways of Meaning in the Bayesian Brain

chapter 10|35 pages

Reflections and Replies

section |4 pages

Barry Stroud on the Meaning and Transcendence of Values

section |5 pages

Ralph Walker on an Attempted Alliance Within Moral Philosophy

section |4 pages

Gustavo Ortiz-Millán on the Direction of the Mind

section |4 pages

James Griffin on the Ethics of Equality

section |8 pages

Juan Antonio Cruz Parcero, Larry Laudan and Rodolfo Vázquez on Candidates for Being Human Rights

section |4 pages

Paul F. Snowdon’s Prolegomena to Wittgenstein and Rule-Following

section |5 pages

Jim Hopkins on Theories of Meaning, Mind and the Brain

chapter 11|7 pages

Closing Comments

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