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Articulating Reasons An Introduction to Inferentialism

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ISBN-10: 0674006925

ISBN-13: 9780674006928

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert B. Brandom

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Robert B. Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analytic philosophy. This new work provides an approachable introduction to the complex system that Making It Explicit mapped out. A tour of the earlier book's large ideas and relevant details, Articulating Reasons offers an easy entry into two of the 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…    
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Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.23" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School, where he is also director of the Information Society Project. He lectures widely at universities in America and abroad, and he makes his home in New Haven, Connecticut.Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Introduction
Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism
Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning
Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism
What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?
A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing
Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality
Notes
Index