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Rule-Following, Rule-Governance and Rule-Accord

Reflections on Rules after Rawls

Jeff Coulter

Boston University, USA, acoulterj{at}comcast.net

In this discussion, I describe my introduction to Rawls’ famous paper on rules and situate this in a broader intellectual context. I then attempt to locate its significance within developments in linguistics (especially in speech-act analysis) and also in ethnomethodology. My main idea is that Rawls’ concept of a ‘constitutive rule’ is in deep harmony with many of Wittgenstein’s insights into the same thematic.

Key Words: ethnomethodology • interpretation • language • rules • Wittgenstein

Journal of Classical Sociology, Vol. 9, No. 4, 389-403 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1468795X09344449
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