Date: 24-Nov-2008 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: The Pragmatics of 'Making it Explicit': Stekeler-Weithofer (Ed) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit
Series Title: Benjamins Current Topics 15
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289971 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027289971 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027222459 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 90.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027222459 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 135.00
Abstract:
Robert Brandom's Making it Explicit (1994) marks a Copernican turn in the philosophy of mind and language, as this collection of critical essays together with Brandom's enlightening answers convincingly shows. Though faithful to Wittgenstein's pragmatic turn in spirit, Brandom gives a systematic account of human sapience as a whole - by grounding our relation to the world by words on our discursive practice, assessing its normative basis, which is instituted by scorekeeping activities and sanctioning attitudes, and thus trying to avoid mystifying mentalism as well as dogmatic naturalism in our account of the human spirit. The topics emphasized in this volume concern the place of Brandom's inferentialist and normative semantics in 20 century philosophy of language (Frege, Carnap, Quine), also in comparison to cognitive linguistics (Chomsky), instrumentalist pragmatism and functionalist understanding of the use of signs (Sellars), deflation of intentionality (Brentano), the logical analysis of predicative structures (Kant), the role of constructions for understanding, the constitution of objectivity by de-re-ascriptions and the problem of anti-representationalism, or how to treat malapropisms (Davidson).
This volume was originally published as a Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition (13:1, 2005).
Linguistic Field(s):
Philosophy of Language
Pragmatics
Semantics
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