What Does It Mean That Constitutive Rules Are in Force? [Special Issue]
Issue: Issue 07 • Author/s: Bartosz Kaluziński
Topics: History of Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of language
The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the issue of how we can understand constitutive rules as being in force for participants S in some rule-constituted practice. We take a look on complicated team-games that are broadly conceived as model example of rule-constituted practices. We claim that rules of games are dependent on mental states of participants in that practice. More precisely, they are in force for the participants S of such games if these participants jointly meet the following conditions: (1) every S has a…