Making it Explicit
Title | Making it Explicit PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Brandom |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 772 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780674543300 |
Where accounts of the relation between language and mind often rest on the concept of representation, Brandom sets out an approach based on inference, and on a conception of certain kinds of implicit assessment that become explicit in language. It is the first attempt to work out a detailed theory rendering linguistic meaning in terms of use.
The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit
Title | The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit PDF eBook |
Author | Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2008-10-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027289972 |
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)
The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit
Title | The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit PDF eBook |
Author | Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2005 |
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Reading Brandom
Title | Reading Brandom PDF eBook |
Author | Bernhard Weiss |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 812 |
Release | 2010-04-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 113697184X |
Robert Brandom’s Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment is one of the most significant, talked about and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years. Featuring specially-commissioned chapters by leading international philosophers with replies by Brandom himself, Reading Brandom clarifies, critically appraises and furthers understanding of Brandom’s important book. Divided into four parts - ‘Normative Pragmatics’; ‘The Challenge of Inferentialism’; ‘Inferentialist Semantics’; and ‘Brandom’s Replies’, Reading Brandom covers the following key aspects of Brandom’s work: inferentialism vs. representationalism normativity in philosophy of language and mind pragmatics and the centrality of asserting language entries and exits meaning and truth semantic deflationism and logical locutions. Essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy of language and mind, Reading Brandom is also an excellent companion volume to Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, also published by Routledge.
The Pragmatics of 'Making it Explicit'
Title | The Pragmatics of 'Making it Explicit' PDF eBook |
Author | Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 249 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Between Saying and Doing
Title | Between Saying and Doing PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Brandom |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2010-04-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0191615056 |
Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions and their use. Giving due weight both to what one has to do in order to count as saying various things and to what one needs to say in order to specify those doings, makes it possible to shed new light on the relations between semantics (the theory of the meanings of utterances and the contents of thoughts) and pragmatics (the theory of the functional relations among meaningful or contentful items). Among the vocabularies whose interrelated use and meaning are considered are: logical, indexical, modal, normative, and intentional vocabulary. As the argument proceeds, new ways of thinking about the classic analytic core programs of empiricism, naturalism, and functionalism are offered, as well as novel insights about the ideas of artificial intelligence, the nature of logic, and intentional relations between subjects and objects.
The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit
Title | The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit PDF eBook |
Author | Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 247 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027222452 |
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)