dispositionalism

Soft instrumentalism in this sense comports naturally with approaches to belief such as dispositionalism and interpretationism, to the extent those positions treat belief attribution simply as a convenient means of pointing toward certain patterns in a subject's real and hypothetical behavior.

Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006

One way to do this is to argue that Kripke's argument only works against a very simple dispositionalism, and that a more complicated version of such a theory would avoid these problems.

Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

If, on the other hand, the dispositionalist can account for semantic correctness conditions, additional considerations would be required to show that the non-normative character of dispositionalism is problematic.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

However, if the notion of a biological function helps solve the classical problems of meaning dispositionalism, it might solve those of dispositionalism about rule-following, too.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

The objections raised to dispositionalism do not turn on the fact that the dispositionalist cannot allow for semantic prescriptions but, rather, on the fact that we must not construe the relation between the meaning determining facts and meaning in such a way that error is ruled out.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

The normativist can argue that for instance the supervenience base that non-normative dispositionalism works with needs to be restricted: It is not the whole of a speaker's dispositions to use their terms that determines meanings, but only a certain kind of disposition and this kind can only be specified by means of its normative properties.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

The objection, then, is that dispositionalism fails on this account.

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

It has been argued that this would amount to a highly problematic dispositionalism, not about meaning, but about sub-personal rule following itself (cf. Boghossian 2008).

The Normativity of Meaning and Content Glüer, Kathrin 2009

Liberal dispositionalists avoid the first objection by abandoning the reductionist project associated with traditional dispositionalism.

Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006

In light of these concerns and others, most recent philosophers sympathetic with the view described in the first paragraph of this section have abandoned traditional dispositionalism.

Belief Schwitzgebel, Eric 2006