The Ethics of Meaning / Robert B. Willison.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Willison, Robert B., author.

Contributor:

Weisberg, Michael, degree supervisor.

Camp, Elisabeth, degree committee member.

Detlefsen, Karen, degree committee member.

Guerrero, Alex, degree committee member.

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Philosophy, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penn dissertations--Philosophy.

Philosophy--Penn dissertations.

Local Subjects:

Penn dissertations--Philosophy.

Philosophy--Penn dissertations.

Physical Description:

xvii, 167 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm

Production:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania, 2017.

Summary:

This dissertation develops an ethics of meaning. In the first chapter, I offer an account of meaning that comprehends its many varieties-natural, cultural, linguistic, literary, and ethical meaning, for example-by appeal to the structural role meaning plays in the practice of interpretation. In Chapter 2, I develop a distinctive account of the concept of ethical meaning ("meaning" as it's used in the phrase "the meaning of life"). In Chapter 3, I develop a new account of irony on the basis of the comprehensive-interpretive account of meaning introduced in Chapter 1.

Notes:

Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania 2017.

Department: Philosophy

Supervisor: Michael Weisberg.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

1313477813