Rule-Following. From Imitation to the Normative Mind Kraków

In this book, Bartosz Brożek attempts to decipher the practice of rule-following with the use of the tools offered both by contemporary philosophy and neuroscience. The Author claims – in the Wittgensteinian spirit – that rule-following cannot be thought of in terms of individual mental states only: in order to explain what rules are, one needs to consider rule-following to be a communal practice. This stance is supported by a number of evolutionary scenarios and neuroscientific theories. The monograph culminates in an explication of rule-following in language, morality and mathematics. Spis treści: Introduction. Of rules 1. The many faces of rule-following 2. At the crossroads of philosophy Chapter 1. Wittgenstein’s insights 1. The illusion of the Cartesian theatre 2. Escaping the paradox 3. Rudimentary and abstract rules Chapter 2. Imitation 1. Out-aping the apes 2. The culture of imitation 3. The neuroscience of rule-following Chapter 3. Is meaning normative? 1. The normativity of meaning debate 2. The formal view of language 3. The embedded view of language 4. Janus-faced normativity Chapter 4. How to blunt Hume’s Guillotine? 1. Hume versus Kant 2. The barking of the emotional dog 3. Under the guillotine Chapter 5. The miracle of mathematics 1. The 3E theory 2. Plato’s beard and Occam’s razor 3. The miracle argument Chapter 6. Into Popper’s world 1. The three worlds 2. Rules in the world 3 Conclusion. The normative mind O autorze: Prof. dr. hab. BARTOSZ BROŻEK – prawnik i filozof, pracownik Katedry Filozofii Prawa i Etyki Prawniczej UJ, współpracownik Centrum Kopernika Badań Interdyscyplinarnych. Autor kilkunastu książek, w tym Umysł matematyczny (wspólnie z Mateuszem Hoholem, Copernicus Center Press 2013), Granice interpretacji(Copernicus Center Press 2014) oraz kilkudziesięciu artykułów z zakresu filozofii prawa, etyki, filozofii nauki, filozofii logiki i kognitywistyki.