![]() ![]() But of course, this view of meaning has also suited other philosophical approaches, such as the pragmatists' and the later neopragmatists' – like Quine or Rorty – as well as, in some aspects, exponents of the school of ordinary language philosophy. ![]() The first of these ingredients is nowadays called the use-theory of meaning and it is often associated with the inventor of the term "language game", the later Wittgenstein. Two main ingredients that shape Brandom's inferentialism are the convictions, that firstly, meaning is the role of the expression within our "language games" and, secondly, that these "language games" are essentially rule-governed. ![]() The methods of philosophical analysis and modeling to be used to this end will be both inspired and disciplined by the current theoretical frameworks, models and hypotheses of various evolutionary sciences, psychology (developmental, cognitive, experimental) or anthropology In this way, we aim to break new philosophical ground. More specifically, we aim to naturalize inferentialism by reconstructing, rethinking and quite possibly revising its account of the nature of rules, reasoning, and meaning from the two main perspectives on man as a natural being: namely phylogenesis and ontogenesis. The theoretical innovations of inferentialism might in turn fertilize current scientific research. It is based on the idea that inferentialism can be mined as a rich resource of ideas that can be reconstructed in direction to a philosophical naturalism, according to which philosophy should be continuous with science. We find this a missed opportunity and our intended project of naturalizing inferentialism proposes to bridge this yawning gap. We are concerned that inferentialism is usually conceived of as a purely philosophical doctrine that provides a new perspective on uniquely human rational and expressive capacities, but which does not intersect with what science tells us about us as creatures with a natural, cultural and developmental history. Thus it has grown into one of the most discussed philosophical doctrines of the twenty-first century to date. Since then, it has been adopted and developed by a large number of authors and also has attracted various criticisms, while Brandom himself has provided further elaborations. The philosophical foundations of inferentialism were presented in Robert Brandom's book Making It Explicit (1994), where he developed a new theory of linguistic meaning in terms of rule-governed social practices. This book is both an important scholarly contribution to the philosophy of logic and a systematic survey of the standard (and not so standard) logical systems that were established during the short history of modern logic.Inferentialism naturalized: norms, meanings and reasons in the Jaroslav Peregrin analyzes the rationale behind the introduction of the artificial languages of logic classifies the various tools which were adopted to build such languages gives an overview of the various kinds of languages introduced in the course of modern logic and the motifs of their employment discusses what can actually be achieved by relocating the problems of logic from natural language into them and reaches certain conclusions with respect to the possibilities and limitations of this formal turn of logic. Philosophy of Logical Systems addresses these new kinds of philosophical problems that are intertwined with the development of modern logic. Hence, this movement has generated brand new kinds of philosophical problems that have still not been dealt with systematically. ![]() However, the change that logic underwent in this way was in no way insignificant, and it is also far from an insignificant matter to determine to what extent the new logic only engaged new and more powerful instruments to answer the questions posed by the old one, and to what extent it replaced these questions with new ones. This shift seemed extremely helpful and managed to elevate logic to a new level of rigor and clarity. This book addresses the hasty development of modern logic, especially its introducing and embracing various kinds of artificial languages and moving from the study of natural languages to that of artificial ones. ![]()
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