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Making It Explicit Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment

Name: Making It Explicit
Author: Robert B. Brandom

Auteur: Robert B. Brandom

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Robert B. Brandom

Engels
Paperback
9780674543300
01 november 1998
768 pagina's

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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.

What would something unlike us--a chimpanzee, say, or a computer--have to be able to do to qualify as a possible knower, like us? To answer this question at the very heart of our sense of ourselves, philosophers have long focused on intentionality and have looked to language as a key to this condition. 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.

At the center of this enterprise is a notion of discursive commitment. Being able to talk--and so in the fullest sense being able to think--is a matter of mastering the practices that govern such commitments, being able to keep track of one's own commitments and those of others. Assessing the pragmatic significance of speech acts is a matter of explaining the explicit in terms of the implicit. As he traces the inferential structure of the social practices within which things can be made conceptually explicit, the author defines the distinctively expressive role of logical vocabulary. This expressive account of language, mind, and logic is, finally, an account of who we are.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 november 1998
Aantal pagina's: 768
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Hoofdauteur: Robert B. Brandom
Hoofduitgeverij: Harvard University Press

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Product breedte: 162 mm
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Product lengte: 234 mm
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Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

Psychologie

Cognitieve psychologie

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