Wolfgang Huemer Wolfgang Huemer

Chronological
List
Philosophy
of Mind
Philosophy
of Literature
Rules &
Rule-Following
Ludwig
Wittgenstein
Analytic
Phenomenology
Franz Brentano
and his school
Aesthetics

The natures of rules and rule-following have fascinated me over years. For a long time they have remained at the periphery of my published work, emerging here and there. Lately I have become particularly intersted in the role of constitutive rules. I have come to reflect on the question of whether there can be implicit constitutive rules, i.e., constitutive rules that are at work even though they have never been spelled out explicitly. (The rules of language (conceived in a broad sense) might be an example of such rules.) Here a short list of publications where this fascination becomes most manifest.

 

Rule-Following Practices in a Natural World
In: Journal of Transcendental Philosophy 1/1 (2020).

The Transition from Causes to Norms
Wittgenstein on Training

in: Grazer philosophische Studien 71 (2006), pp. 205-25.

Husserl and Haugeland on Constitution
in: Synthese 137/3 (2003), pp. 345-68.

[Video]: The Place of Rules in a Natural World
Paper given at the conference: Naturalism and Transcendental Philosophy
organized by Andrea Staiti, May 15-19, Parma