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Brandom contrasts inferentialism, as a philosophical explanatory strategy, with representationalism,
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Brandom contrasts inferentialism, as a philosophical explanatory strategy, with representationalism
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Brandom contrasts the idea of material inference to that of formal inference
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Brandom does not understand judgements in terms of their composition out of smaller meaning-units, but understands smaller meaning-units in terms of the roles they play in judgements. (And of course a judgement, for Brandom, can only be a judgement as part of a larger social system of judgements.)
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we become concept-mongers by entering the space of reasons; by participating in the social practice of asking for and giving reasons.
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a broadly regularist framework by accounting for the interpretive acts of ‘seeing-as’ that are required in order to pick out a given regularity
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The process of explicitation means that no “this is simply what I do” is intrinsically the end of the conversation.
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Brandom’s solution to the problem of the origins of intentionality is intended to provide a solution to the problem of the origins of normativity
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Brandom is here appropriating – in I think an exceptionally clever way – Dennett’s idea of the ‘intentional stance’
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norms or rules are not ‘primitive’ for Brandom in any strong sense (though the reflexive nature of the argument means that norms are, at a number of points in the argument, treated as if they are primitive
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norms or rules are not ‘primitive’ for Brandom in any strong sense
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it is clearly possible to endorse the claim that meaning/content supervenes upon non-semantic, non-normative facts without thereby being committed to reductive naturalism.
"Commentary on Van Brakel and Fetzer on Ford & Hayes on the Frame Problem"
"The "Symbol Grounding Problem" was formulated by Harnad (1990). He pointed out that the symbols in an information processor can only be internally described by using an address to obtain other symbols which can only be described by looking up yet further symbols and so on. There is nothing within an information processor that gives its internal symbols any meaning. "
"The Symbol Grounding Problem is related to the problem of how words (symbols) get their meanings, and hence to the problem of what meaning itself really is."
John Stewart argues that despite the perception that science has stripped the meaning from life, recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that humans have a central role to play in the future of the universe | John Stewart | Science | guardian.co.uk
Evolutionary thinking has lately expanded from the biological to the human world, first into the social sciences and recently into the humanities and the arts. Many people therefore now understand the human, and even human culture, as inextricably biological. But many others in the humanities-in this, at least, like religious believers who reject evolution outright-feel that a Darwinian view of life and a biological view of humanity can only deny human purpose and meaning. (Brian Boyd, The American Scholar)
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