How can conceptual content be social and normative, and, at the same time, be objective?

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-032383-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 468 g

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In this book, Andrea Clausen intends to reconcile Kripke's point according to which conceptual content has to be considered as being constituted by social, normative practice - by a process of mutual assessments - with the view that the content of empirical assertions has to be conceived as objective. She criticizes approaches that explicate content-constitutive practice in non-normative terms, namely in terms of sanctioning behavior (Haugeland, Pettit, Esfeld). She also rejects a pragmatist reading of Heidegger that proceeds from thoroughly normative but pre-conceptual practice. She develops and defends a particular reading of an approach that conceives normative, conceptually articulated practice - giving and asking for reasons - as primitive (Brandom, McDowell).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clausen, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten