When philosophy paints its blue on gray: Irony and the pragmatist enlightenment

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Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1-28

  Brandom, Robert B ^a  

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EID: 60949710744     PISSN: 01903659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01903659-29-2-1     Document Type: Review

References (6)

1. Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001). Hereafter, subsequent references to this work are cited parenthetically by page number only.
2. See Richard Rorty's essay, "Universality and Truth," chap. 1 of Rorty and His Critics, ed. Robert B. Brandom (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000).
3. G. E. M. Anscombe, Intention (1957; reprint, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
4. I discuss this way of thinking about semantics further in chap. 1 of my Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).
5. In chap. 2 of Articulating Reasons, I argue for an inferential construal of the expressive role of statements of preference or pro-attitude, and of normative vocabulary generally. But this reconstrual does not affect the point that there is a further element in play, besides beliefs and actions or intentions, whose variability undercuts the possibility of any straightforward inference from things done to things believed.
6. See Wilfrid Sellars's masterwork, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).