The Ethics Of Meaning
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Philosophy
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Ethics
Irony
Meaning
Ethics and Political Philosophy
Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
Philosophy
Irony
Meaning
Ethics and Political Philosophy
Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
Philosophy
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2018-09-27T20:17:00-07:00
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Abstract
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.
Advisor
Michael Weisberg
Date of degree
2017-01-01