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14 - Brandom’s Conversationalism: Davidson and Making It Explicit

from II - Later Papers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 October 2020

Richard Rorty
Edited by
W. P. Małecki  and
Chris Voparil
W. P. Małecki
Affiliation:
University of Wrocław, Poland
Chris Voparil
Affiliation:
Union Institute and University, Ohio
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In “Brandom’s Conversationalism: Davidson and Making It Explicit,” Rorty offers a clear and concise summary of the main argument of Brandom’s book its proximity to Davidson’s thought, and its particular limitations. Rorty takes the reader through a careful, point-by-point explication of where in their respective texts Brandom and Davidson endorse each other’s positions and where the apparent divergences in their attempts to naturalize semantics and philosophy of mind are not differences that make a difference. Rorty pays particular attention to where Brandom violates his claim that “there is no realm in which concepts do not apply” to endorse the existence of nonlinguistic facts.

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inferentialismsemanticsmindnaturalismDonald DavidsonRobert Brandomneopragmatism
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On Philosophy and Philosophers
Unpublished Papers, 1960–2000
 , pp. 203 - 213
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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