Motivating inferentialism: Comments on Making It Explicit (Ch. 2)

• Autores: John McDowell
• Localización: Pragmatics and cognition, ISSN 0929-0907, Vol. 13, Nº 1, 2005 (Ejemplar dedicado a: The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit On Robert B. Brandom), págs. 121-140
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Brandom¿s attempt to motivate inferentialism is found wanting on a number of grounds, including a skepticism about how much recommendation for inferentialism can be derived from the evident unsatisfactoriness of the representationalism Brandom contrasts it with, which seems to be a straw man. Brandom¿s appeal to authorities (Sellars, Frege, Dummett) falls flat; in particular, his reading of Frege¿s early work as inferentialist in Brandom¿s sense is a misinterpretation. Given the programmatic character of Brandom¿s recommendation for inferentialism, the quality of the motivation he offers for it matters more than he has acknowledged.