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Robert Brandom

Jeremy Wanderer
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Author : Jeremy Wanderer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317493433

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"Robert Brandom" is one of the most significant philosophers writing today, yet paradoxically philosophers have found it difficult to get to grips with the details and implications of his work. This book aims to facilitate critical engagement with Brandom's ideas by providing an accessible overview of Brandom's project and the context for an initial assessment. Jeremy Wanderer's examination focuses on Brandom's inferentialist conception of rationality, and the core part of this conception that aims to specify the structure that a set of performances within a social practice must have for the participants to count as sapient beings by virtue of their participation in the practice, and for the performances within the practice to have objective semantic content by virtue of their featuring within the practice. Wanderer's exploration of these two goals forms the structure to the book. It Includes: Part I that provides a structural model of linguistic practice and considers various groups of potential participants in terms of their relationships to this practice; and, Part II that examines the meaning of the performances that are caught up in this gameplaying practice. Brandom's approach to semantics is outlined and the challenge such an approach has in allowing for a representational dimension of language and thought is explored. Wanderer offers readers a valuable framework for understanding the Brandomian system and helps situate Brandom's systematic theorizing within contemporary Anglo-American philosophy. This book will be a sought after aid to reading Brandom for advanced students and philosophers engaging with his challenging body of work.

A Spirit of Trust

Robert B. Brandom
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Author : Robert B. Brandom
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674976818

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In a new retelling of the romantic rationalist adventure of ideas that is Hegel's classic The Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Brandom argues that when our self-conscious recognitive attitudes take Hegel's radical form of magnanimity and trust, we can overcome a troubled modernity and enter a new age of spirit.

Making it Explicit

Robert Brandom
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Author : Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674543300

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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.

Reason in Philosophy

Robert Brandom
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Author : Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 067403449X

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An emphasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely to represent, has been growing in philosophy over the years. This book gives an overview of the author's understanding of the role of reason as the structure at once of our minds and our meanings - what constitutes us as free, responsible agents.

Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism

Giacomo Turbanti
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Author : Giacomo Turbanti
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265074

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Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism by Giacomo Turbanti Pdf

The philosophy of language of Robert Brandom is based on a theoretical structure composed of three main elements: the normative analysis of linguistic practices, the inferential characterization of conceptual contents and the expressive articulation of the relations between the former two. Normative pragmatics aims to explain how linguistic practices are sufficient to confer contentful states in those who engage in them. Inferential semantics provides a theory of such pragmatic significances in terms of the inferential relations that articulate conceptual contents. Rational expressivism is the thesis that concept application is essentially a process of turning something that can only be done into something that can also be said. Such a threefold structure is the core of normative inferentialism. This book is a concise, self-contained and comprehensive presentation of this philosophical enterprise. It guides the reader through the analysis of Brandom's imposing theoretical apparatus, the discovery of the roots of his approach in American pragmatism and German idealism, till the exploration of some of its most interesting and recent outcomes in pragmatics and semantics. It is a valuable resource for both those who approach Brandom's work for the first time and those who are interested in the potential of normative inferentialism.

Articulating Reasons

Robert BRANDOM
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Author : Robert BRANDOM
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674028739

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Robert B. Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analytic philosophy. This new work provides an approachable introduction to the complex system that Making It Explicit mapped out. A tour of the earlier book's large ideas and relevant details, Articulating Reasons offers an easy entry into two of the main themes of Brandom's work: the idea that the semantic content of a sentence is determined by the norms governing inferences to and from it, and the idea that the distinctive function of logical vocabulary is to let us make our tacit inferential commitments explicit. Brandom's work, making the move from representationalism to inferentialism, constitutes a near-Copernican shift in the philosophy of language--and the most important single development in the field in recent decades. Articulating Reasons puts this accomplishment within reach of nonphilosophers who want to understand the state of the foundations of semantics. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism 2. Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning 3. Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism 4. What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any? 5. A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing 6. Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality Notes Index Displaying a sovereign command of the intricate discussion in the analytic philosophy of language, Brandom manages successfully to carry out a program within the philosophy of language that has already been sketched by others, without losing sight of the vision inspiring the enterprise in the important details of his investigation ' Using the tools of a complex theory of language, Brandom succeeds in describing convincingly the practices in which the reason and autonomy of subjects capable of speech and action are expressed. --J'rgen Habermas

Perspectives on Pragmatism

Robert Brandom
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Author : Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674058088

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Pragmatism has been reinvented in every generation since its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. This book, by one of todayÕs most distinguished contemporary heirs of pragmatist philosophy, rereads cardinal figures in that tradition, distilling from their insights a way forward from where we are now. Perspectives on Pragmatism opens with a new accounting of what is living and what is dead in the first three generations of classical American pragmatists, represented by Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey. Post-Deweyan pragmatism at midcentury is discussed in the work of Wilfrid Sellars, one of its most brilliant and original practitioners. SellarsÕ legacy in turn is traced through the thought of his admirer, Richard Rorty, who further developed JamesÕs and DeweyÕs ideas within the professional discipline of philosophy and once more succeeded, as they had, in showing the more general importance of those ideas not only for intellectuals outside philosophy but for the wider public sphere. The book closes with a clear description of the authorÕs own analytic pragmatism, which combines all these ideas with those of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and synthesizes that broad pragmatism with its dominant philosophical rival, analytic philosophy, which focuses on language and logic. The result is a treatise that allows us to see American philosophy in its full scope, both its origins and its promise for tomorrow.

From Empiricism to Expressivism

Robert Brandom
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Author : Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674187283

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Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading critics of empiricism—a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Robert Brandom clarifies what Sellars had in mind when he talked about moving analytic philosophy from its Humean to its Kantian phase and why such a move might be of crucial importance today.

Tales of the Mighty Dead

Robert Brandom
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Author : Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674009037

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A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most prominent American philosophers working today provides an entirely new way of looking at the development of Western philosophy from Descartes to the present. Brandom begins by setting out a historical context and outlining a methodological rationale for his enterprise. Then, in chapters on Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Frege, Heidegger, and Sellars, he pursues the most fundamental philosophical issues concerning intentionality, and therefore mindedness itself, revealing an otherwise invisible set of overlapping themes and explanatory strategies. Variously functionalist, inferentialist, holist, normative, and social pragmatist in character, the explanations of intentionality offered by these philosophers, taken together, form a distinctive tradition. The fresh perspective afforded by this tradition enriches our understanding of the philosophical topics being addressed, provides a new conceptual vantage point for viewing our philosophical ancestors, and highlights central features of the sort of rationality that consists in discerning a philosophical tradition--and it does so by elaborating a novel, concrete instance of just such an enterprise.

Between Saying and Doing

Robert B. Brandom
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Author : Robert B. Brandom
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191615054

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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.

Robert Brandom

Robert Brandom,Bernd Prien
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Author : Robert Brandom,Bernd Prien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Analysis (Philosophy)
ISBN : 3938793775

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Robert Brandom by Robert Brandom,Bernd Prien Pdf

Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned philosophers in the analytic tradition today. This volume contains his programmatic essay 'Towards an Analytic Pragmatism', in which Brandom shows how analytic philosophy can broaden its perspective so as to incorporate important insights of pragmatism. In addition, this volume contains nine papers dealing critically with themes from Brandom's writings, ranging from his 1994 book Making it Explicit to Between Saying and Doing, last year's Locke Lectures. Finally, there are replies by Robert Brandom to these papers.

Robert Brandom

Bernd Prien,David P. Schweikard
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Author : Bernd Prien,David P. Schweikard
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110326246

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Robert Brandom by Bernd Prien,David P. Schweikard Pdf

Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned philosophers in the analytic tradition today. This volume contains his programmatic essay 'Towards an Analytic Pragmatism', in which Brandom shows how analytic philosophy can broaden ist perspective so as to incorporate important insights of pragmatism. In addition, this volume contains nine papers dealing critically with themes from Brandom’s writings, ranging from his 1994 book Making it Explicit to Between Saying and Doing, last year’s Locke Lectures. Finally, there are replies by Robert Brandom to these papers.

Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

Wilfrid Sellars,Richard Rorty,Robert Brandom
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Author : Wilfrid Sellars,Richard Rorty,Robert Brandom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674251547

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Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars,Richard Rorty,Robert Brandom Pdf

The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of "knowledge by acquaintance." Sellars' attack on the Myth of the Given in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning analytic philosophy away from the foundationalist motives of the logical empiricists and raised doubts about the very idea of "epistemology." With an introduction by Richard Rorty to situate the work within the history of recent philosophy, and with a study guide by Robert Brandom, this publication of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind makes a difficult but indisputably significant figure in the development of analytic philosophy clear and comprehensible to anyone who would understand that philosophy or its history.

The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy

Chauncey Maher
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Author : Chauncey Maher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136223105

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The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy by Chauncey Maher Pdf

In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers—The Pittsburgh School—whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms. Wilfrid Sellars claimed that humans are distinctive because they occupy a norm-governed "space of reasons." Along with Sellars, Robert Brandom and John McDowell have tried to work out the implications of that idea for understanding knowledge, thought, norms, language, and intentional action. The aim of this book is to introduce their shared views on those topics, while also charting a few key disputes between them.

Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism

Huw Price,Simon Blackburn,Robert Brandom,Paul Horwich,Michael Williams
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Author : Huw Price,Simon Blackburn,Robert Brandom,Paul Horwich,Michael Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107354838

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Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price,Simon Blackburn,Robert Brandom,Paul Horwich,Michael Williams Pdf

Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his René Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other contemporary forms of philosophical naturalism, comparing it with other pragmatist and neo-pragmatist views such as those of Robert Brandom and Simon Blackburn. Linking their different 'expressivist' programmes, Price argues for a radical global expressivism that combines key elements from both. With Paul Horwich and Michael Williams, Brandom and Blackburn respond to Price in new essays. Price replies in the closing essay, emphasising links between his views and those of Wilfrid Sellars. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.