Bibliograph

Making it explicit, reasoning, representing, and discursive commitment, Robert B. Brandom

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Making it explicit, reasoning, representing, and discursive commitment, Robert B. Brandom

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 656-716) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Making it explicit

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

29667963

Responsibility statement

Robert B. Brandom

Sub title

reasoning, representing, and discursive commitment

Summary

Making it Explicit is an investigation into the nature of language - the social practices that distinguish us as rational, logical creatures - that revises the very terms of this inquiry. Where accounts of the relation between language and mind have traditionally rested on the concept of representation, this book sets out an alternate approach based on inference, and on a conception of certain kinds of implicit assessment that become explicit in language. Making It Explicit is the first attempt to work out in detail a theory that renders linguistic meaning in terms of use - in short, to explain how semantic content can be conferred on expressions and attitudes that are suitably caught up in social practices

Table Of Contents

1. Toward a Normative Pragmatics -- 2. Toward an Inferential Semantics -- 3. Linguistic Practice and Discursive Commitment -- 4. Perception and Action: The Conferral of Empirical and Practical Conceptual Content -- 5. The Expressive Role of Traditional Semantic Vocabulary: 'True' and 'Refers' -- 6. Substitution: What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any? -- 7. Anaphora: The Structure of Token Repeatables -- 8. Ascribing Propositional Attitudes: The Social Route from Reasoning to Representing -- 9. Conclusion

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