Böcker av Mark Platts

The papers in this collection discuss the connections between language, reality and human understanding. The complex relations between accounts of meaning and facts about ordinary speakers¿ understanding of their language are examined so as to illuminate the philosophical character of the connections between language and reality.

Presents a descriptive metaphysics of morals, attempting to reveal how philosophical critics have misidentified the institution of morality. The author engages the classical moral philosophies of Hume, Mandeville and Nietzsche.