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Articulating Reasons Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Articulating Reasons AN INTRODUCTION TO INFERENTIALISM ◆ ◆ ◆ Robert B. Brandom Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Copyright © 2000by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Second printing, 2001 First Harvard University Press paperback edition, 2001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Brandom, Robert. Articulating reasons : an introduction to inferentialism / Robert B. Brandom. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-00158-3(cloth) ISBN 0-674-00692-5(pbk.) 1. Language and languages—Philosophy. 2. Semantics (Philosophy) 3. Inference. 4. Reasoning. 5. Language and logic. 6. Expression (Philosophy) I. Title. P106.B69382000 121'.68—dc21 99-057756 Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College To my wife, Barbara, whose loving support and patient indulgence over the years mean more to me than I can say Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Acknowledgments ◆ ◆ ◆ The lectures on which this book is based evolved under the influ- ence of the responses of many audiences to which different ver- sions have been presented in recent years. Here and there it has been possible to acknowledge particular contributions, but the cumulative effect of all those smart people thinking these things through with me—and the debt I owe for it—is incalculable. I am profoundly grateful. Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Contents ◆ ◆ ◆ Acknowledgements Introduction 1 1 Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism 45 2 Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning 79 3 Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism 97 4 What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any? 123 5 A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing 157 6 Objectivity and the Normative 6 Fine Structure of Rationality 185 Notes 205 Index 222 Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College Copyright © 2000 The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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