2017 - 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0618-3011-01 | Brandom - Linguistic Meaning, Inferential Practice and Social Convention | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In this seminar we discuss the main tenets of the philosophy of Robert Brandom, according to whom linguistic meaning and conceptual mental content arise from socially governed inferential practice. We will study primarily Brandom's own texts, but also other sources.