The Commitment to Inference
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https://doi.org/10.22240/sent38.02.124Keywords:
inferentialism, Richard Rorty, Wilfrid Sellars, the Myth of the Given, representationalism, commitment, rulesAbstract
In this conversation, American philosopher Robert Brandom talks about the historical background of his inferentialism, reconstructing the influence of his teachers Wilfrid Sellars and Richard Rorty.
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Brandom, R. (1979). Freedom and Constraint by Norms. In American Philosophical Quater-ly, Vol. 16, No. 3. 187-196.
Brandom, R. (1983). Asserting. In Noûs, Vol. 17, №. 4. 637-650. https://doi.org/10.2307/2215086
Brandom, R. (1994). Making It Explicit. Cambridge, & London: Harvard UP.
Brandom, R. (1997). Study Guide. In W. Sellars. Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. 119-181. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP.
Brandom, R. (2001). Articulating Reasons. An Introduction to Inferentialism. Cambridge, & London: Harvard UP.
Brandom, R. (2002). Tales of the Mighty Dead. Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of In-tentionality. Cambridge, & London: Harvard UP.
Brandom, R. (2006). Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning, and Rationality. Philosophical Topics, 34(1 & 2), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtopics2006341/21
Brandom, R. (2015). From Empiricism to Expressivism. Brandom Reads Sellars. Cambridge, & London: Harvard UP. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735569
Brandom, R. (2019). A Spirit of Trust. A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology. Cambridge, & London: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfjczmk
Carnap, R. (2001). Logical Syntax of Language. (A. Smeaton, Trans.). London: Routledge.
Kant, I. (1998). Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Hamburg: Meiner. https://doi.org/10.28937/978-3-7873-2112-4
Lewis, C. I. (1990). Mind and the World-Order. Outline of a Theory of Knowledge. New York: Dover Publications.
Maher, Ch. (2012). The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy. Sellars, McDowell, Brandom. New York, & London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203097502
McDowell, J. (1994/6). Mind and World. Cambridge, & London: Harvard UP.
McDowell, J. (2009). Having the World in View. Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars. Cambridge, & London: Harvard UP.
Quine, W. V. O. (1951). Two Dogmas of Empiricism. In The Philosophical Review, Vol. 60, №. 1. 20-43. https://doi.org/10.2307/2181906
Quine, W. V. O. (1960). Carnap and Logical Truth. In Synthese, Vol. 12, №. 4. 350-374. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485423
Rorty, R. (1970). Incorrigibility as the Mark of the Mental. In The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 67, №. 12. 399-424. https://doi.org/10.2307/2024002
Rorty, R. (2009). Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition. Princeton, & Oxford: Princeton UP. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400833061
Searle, J. (1969). Speech Acts. An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. London: Cam-bridge UP. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139173438
Sellars, W. (1953). Is There a Synthetic a Priori? In Philosophy of Science, 20 (2). 121-138. https://doi.org/10.1086/287251
Sellars, W. (1958). Counterfactuals, Dispositions, and the Causal Modalities. In Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science, Vol. 2. 225-308.
Sellars, W. (1992). Science and Metaphysics. Variations on Kantian Themes. Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Company.
Sellars, W. (1997). Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge, & London: Harvard UP.
Sellars, W. (2005). Pure Pragmatics and Possible Worlds. The Early Essays of Wilfrid Sellars. Edited and Introduced by Jeffrey F. Sicha. Atascadero: Ridgeview Publishing Company.
Sellars, W. (2007). In the Space of Reasons. Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars. Cambridge, & London: Harvard UP.
Strawson, P. (1966). The Bounds of Sense. An Essay on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. London: Methuen.
Vico, G. (1948). The New Science. (Thomas Goddard Bergin and Max Harold Fisch, Trans.). Ithaca: Cornell UP.
Wittgenstein, L. (2003). Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Frankfurt a. Main: Suhrkamp. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203010341
Wittgenstein, L. (2003). Philosophische Untersuchungen. Frankfurt a. Main: Suhrkamp.
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Brandom, R. B., & Ivashchenko, I. (2019). The Commitment to Inference. Sententiae, 38(2), 124–150. https://doi.org/10.22240/sent38.02.124
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