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Title

Robert Brandom's normative inferentialism / Giacomo Turbanti.

Author

Turbanti, Giacomo

Publication

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

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Description

vii, 245 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; volume 280

Uniform Title

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 280.

Subject

• Brandom, Robert
• Brandom, Robert 1950-
• Inference
• Semantics (Philosophy)
• Language and languages > Philosophy
• Inference
• Sprachphilosophie

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• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The grounds of pragmatic significance -- The space of reasons -- Sentience and sapience -- A "two-ply" reading of Sellars's account of observation -- The pragmatic priority of the propositional -- Commitments, entitlements and scorekeeping -- Normative phenomenalism -- Conceptual realism -- Normative pragmatics in perspective -- The job of semantics and pragmatics -- The origins of the distinction between semantics and pragmatics -- The theory of speech acts -- Cognitive pragmatics -- Intentional states and normative practices -- The declarative fallacy -- A refined topography of the space of reasons -- Recognitive speech acts -- Brandom's rationalist stance -- The articulation of conceptual content -- Inferential semantics -- Meaning and naming -- Meaning and inference -- Compositionality and holism -- Subsentential roles, substitution and anaphora -- Expressive rationality -- Logical expressivism -- Truth and denotational vocabulary -- Intentional vocabulary -- Meaning-use analysis -- Logical vocabulary -- Modal vocabulary -- Incompatibility semantics -- A pragmatic primitive in semantics -- Why formal semantics? -- Varieties of inferential semantics -- Meaning-use analysis of IS -- Semantic interpretation -- Incoherence models -- Entailment -- Logical vocabulary in IS -- Negation -- Conjunction -- Modality -- Metalogical properties -- Soundness and completeness -- Semantic recursiveness -- Exploring incompatibility -- Kripkean incompatibility semantics -- Possible worlds in IS -- How to Kripke IS -- What it means to Kripke IS -- Non-monotonic incompatibility semantics -- Ranges of counterfactual robustness -- Non-monotonicity -- Relevant reasoning -- Defeasible reasoning -- Preferential incompatibility semantics -- The expressive role of incompatibility -- From infercntialism to idealism, and back -- Infercntialism -- Pragmatism -- Idealism -- The revision of material incompatibilities -- Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Incompatibility semantics -- The collapse of modality -- Inferentially conservative extensions of incoherence models -- Kripkean incompatibility semantics -- Modal logics and KIS -- The modal stability of KIS -- Semantic recursiveness for KIS -- Preferential incompatibility semantics -- Soundness and representation theorems -- Some worth noticing failures -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

ISBN

• 9789027256850
• 9027256853
• 9789027265074 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2017022355

OCLC

• 987281755
• SCSB-12064293

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library