Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment by Robert Brandom

Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment



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Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment Robert Brandom
Language: English
Page: 765
Format: pdf
ISBN: 067454319X, 9780674543195
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Making It Explicit has already developed a justified reputation as a major contribution to the philosophy of language. It takes the traditional ill-fitting story of the relationship between language and the world and turns it upside down. Instead of starting with the existence of the world and explaining what it is for language to represent the world, it starts with language and explains what it is for the world to be represented by language...With tremendous panache, he launches into accounts of normativity, inference, meaning, truth, reference and objectivity, trying to show that the later concepts in that list are made intelligible by the earlier.
--Rowland Stout (Times Literary Supplement )

Making It Explicit is a landmark in theoretical philosophy comparable to that constituted in the early seventies by A Theory of Justice in practical philosophy...Drawing upon the resources furnished by his intricate theory of language, Brandom succeeds in offering a thoroughly convincing description of the practices within which beings capable of language and action express their rationality and autonomy.
--Jürgen Habermas (Wahrheit und Rechtfertigung )

Robert Brandom's magnificent book is an attempt to rework the whole of the philosophy of language in terms of normative, socially articulated pragmatics. His approach, inferentialism, which he traces through Kant and Frege to Wittgenstein and Sellars, is opposed to a more standard approach, representationalism...Making It Explicit is written with an exhilarating argumentative relish and tremendous assurance and thoroughness.
--Rowland Stout (Mind )

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Wilfrid Sellars described his project as an attempt to usher analytic philosophy out of its Humean and into its Kantian stage...Brandom's work can usefully be seen as an attempt to usher philosophy from its Kantian to its Hegelian stage...This sort of free and easy transition between philosophy of language and mind on the one hand, and world-historical vision on the other, is reminiscent not only of Mead and Dewey but also of Gadamer and Habermas.
--Richard Rorty, Introduction to Sellars' Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind

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