Making normativity explicit

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  • Marcelo Masson Maroldi Universidade de São Paulo

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Brandom, Norms, Pragmatism, Inferentialism

Resumo

Robert Brandom's Making It Explicit is a very complex, difficult, extensive and misunderstood book. One of its main objectives is to explain normativity from a pragmatist point of view, basically, the thesis that the norms are instituted by attitudes of rational beings engaged in social and inferentially articulated practices. In this paper, my goal is to develop the structure of the book regarding specifically the "normative pragmatics", showing the concepts and vocabulary Brandom introduces to account normativity. Then, I present three modes at which we can understand the normative practices and discuss the problems and solutions we find in each mode. I conclude with a short analysis on the main criticism made to the book. 

Biografia do Autor

Marcelo Masson Maroldi, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutorando em Filosofia na Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) da Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Bolsista da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP).

Referências

BRANDOM, R. Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.

BRANDOM, R. Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

BRANDOM, R. Tales of Mighty Dead: Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

BRANDOM, R. Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning, and Rationality. The Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, LXXXIV, 2007, pp. 109-129.

BRANDOM, R. Reason in Philosophy: Animating ideas. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

SELLARS, W. Some Reflections on Language Games. In: SELLARS, W., SCHARP, K. and BRANDOM, R. (eds.). In the space of reasons: Selected essays of Wilfrid Sellars. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2007, pp. 28-56.

WITTGENSTEIN, L. Philosophical Investigations. Trans. by Anscombe, G. E. M. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986.

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2015-12-14

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