Robert Bran­dom’s Making it Explicit (1994) marks a Copernican turn in the philosophy of mind and language, as this collection of critical essays together with Brandom’s enlightening answers convincingly shows. Though faithful to Witt­genstein’s prag­ma­tic turn in spirit, Brandom gives a systematic account of human sapience as a whole – by grounding our relation to the world by words on our discursive practice, assessing its nor­mative basis, which is instituted by scorekeeping activities and sanctioning attitudes, and thus trying to avoid mystifying mentalism as well as dogmatic naturalism in our account of the human spirit. The topics emphasized in this volume concern the place of Brandom’s inferentialist and normative semantics in 20th century philosophy of language (Frege, Carnap, Quine), also in comparison to cognitive linguistics (Chomsky), instrumentalist pragmatism and functionalist understanding of the use of signs (Sellars), deflation of intentionality (Brentano), the logical analysis of predicative structures (Kant), the role of constructions for understanding, the constitution of objectivity by de-re-ascriptions and the problem of anti-representationalism, or how to treat malapropisms (Davidson).This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition (13:1, 2005)
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1. About the Authors; 2. Introduction; 3. Formal truth and objective reference in an inferentialist setting (by Stekeler-Weithofer, Pirmin); 4. The nature of meaning: Brandom versus Chomsky (by Peregrin, Jaroslav); 5. The father, the son, and the daughter: Sellars, Brandom, and Millikan (by Millikan, Ruth Garrett); 6. A deflationist theory of intentionality? Brandom's analysis of de re specifying attitude-ascriptions (by Knell, Sebastian); 7. Transcendental deduction of predicative structure in Kant and Brandom (by Rodl, Sebastian); 8. Meaning, justification, and truth (by Kambartel, Friedrich); 9. Motivating inferentialism: Comments on Making it Explicit (Ch. 2) (by McDowell, John); 10. Pragmatics, Pittsburgh style (by Laurier, Daniel); 11. Brandom's solution of the objectivity problem (by Gronert, Peter); 12. Keeping track of individuals: Brandom's analysis of Kripke's puzzle and the content of belief (by Penco, Carlo); 13. Scorekeeping in a defective language game (by Scharp, Kevin A.); 14. Response (by Brandom, Robert B.); 15. Index of persons; 16. Index of topics
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9789027222459
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2008-10-29
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John Benjamins Publishing Co
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245 mm
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