Reading Brandom: On Making It Explicit

Reading Brandom: On Making It Explicit

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<P>Robert Brandom’s <EM>Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment</EM> is one of the most significant, talked about and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years. Featuring specially-commissioned chapters by leading international philosophers with replies by Brandom himself, <EM>Reading Brandom</EM> clarifies, critically appraises and furthers understanding of Brandom’s important book.</P> <P></P> <P>Divided into four parts - ‘Normative Pragmatics’; ‘The Challenge of Inferentialism’; ‘Inferentialist Semantics’; and ‘Brandom’s Replies’, <EM>Reading Brandom</EM> covers the following key aspects of Brandom’s work:</P> <UL> <P> <LI>inferentialism vs. representationalism</LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>normativity in philosophy of language and mind</LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>pragmatics and the centrality of asserting</LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>language entries and exits</LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>meaning and truth</LI> <P></P> <P> <LI>semantic deflationism and logical locutions. </LI> <P></P></UL> <P></P> <P>Essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy of language and mind, <EM>Reading Brandom</EM> is also an excellent companion volume to <EM>Reading McDowell: On Mind and World</EM>, also published by Routledge.</P> <P></P> <P></P>