Articulating Reasons – An Introduction to Inferentialism - Hardcover

Brandom, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674001583 ISBN 13: 9780674001589

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Robert B. Brandon is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book "Making it Explicit" covered and extended a vast of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language -the very core of analytic philosophy. This new book provides an introduction to the complex system that "Making it Explicit" mapped out. A tour of th earliest book's large ideas and relevant details, this text offers an easy entry into two of th 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. This book pouts this accomplishment within reach of non-philosophers who want to understand the state of the foundations of semantics.

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Review

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.--Jurgen Habermas

About the Author

Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674001583
• ISBN 13: 9780674001589
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256