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  • 11 - Communitarianism, Interpersonalism, and Individualism in Kripke’s “Skeptical Solution”

  • Edited by Claudine Verheggen, York University, Toronto
  • Book:
    Kripke's <i>Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language</i> at 40
    Published online:
    22 February 2024
    Print publication:
    08 February 2024, pp 201-219

  • Summary

    In what sense is language social? I suggest we distinguish two questions here: First, what degree of social interaction is essential to constituting someone as a language-user? Second, what degree of agreement in meanings must language involve? Each of these questions may be given individualist, interpersonalist, or communitarian answers – not necessarily the same to both. For instance, Davidson is an interpersonalist concerning the first question and an individualist concerning the second. Kripke’s “skeptical solution” is commonly taken to imply a communitarian answer to both of these questions, but in the present chapter I argue that, despite its differences with Davidson’s view of language, it is compatible with constitutive interpersonalism and meaning-individualism. While it may seem as though a genuinely communitarian answer to the first question would imply communitarianism about the second as well, I close the chapter by suggesting that this is not as obvious as it seems.