Brandom / Ronald Loeffler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loeffler, Ronald, author.

Series:

Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England)

Key contemporary thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brandom, Robert.

Physical Description:

ix, 268 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2018.

Summary:

Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned contemporary American philosophers, discussed widely in analytic as well as continental philosophical communities on both sides of the Atlantic. His innovative approach to language and rationality combines the philosophies of language and mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic with intriguing interpretations of historical figures such as Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein. Yet, due to its boldly unorthodox and highly technical nature, Brandom's work can also be daunting for the beginner. In this accessible book, Ronald Loeffler provides a critical and clear-headed guide through the maze of Brandom's philosophy. He conveys the pioneering nature of Brandom's approach to language and communication, with its unabashed appropriation of the German Idealistic tradition, and offers focused, sure-footed introductions to all major aspects of Brandom's thought, including his normative pragmatics and inferential role semantics and his theories of empirical knowledge, logic, linguistic representation, and objectivity. This book will be essential reading for students of philosophy, as well as those in related fields with interests in language, communication, and the nature of norm-governed social interaction. Book jacket.

Contents:

Meaning and communication

Mighty dead: Kant and Hegel

Scorekeeping

Sentence meaning, term meaning, Anaphora

Empirical content and empirical knowledge

Logical discourse

Representation and communication

Phenomenalism about norms and objectivity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Loeffler, Ronald, author. Brandom

ISBN:

9780745664194

0745664199

9780745664200

0745664202

OCLC:

975078518