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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.

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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Michael Weisberg; Committee members: Elisabeth Camp; Karen Detlefsen; Alex Guerrero.
Department: Philosophy.
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania 2017.

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School code: 0175

Contributor:

Weisberg, Michael, degree supervisor.
Guerrero, Alex, degree committee member.
Detlefsen, Karen, degree committee member.
Camp, Elisabeth, degree committee member.
University of Pennsylvania. Philosophy, degree granting institution.

ISBN:

9780355619805

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