Making It Explicit - Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment

Informationen zum Autor Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. He delivered the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford and the Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University. Brandom is the author of many books, including Making It Explicit , Reason in Philosophy , and From Empiricism to Expressivism (all from Harvard). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert B. Brandom, BRANDOM ROBERT B, Brandom Robert B.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.1998
• EAN: 9780674543300
• ISBN: 978-0-674-54330-0
• No. of pages: 768
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 35 mm
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