Keeping track of individuals: Brandom's analysis of Kripke's puzzle and the content of belief

• Autores: Carlo Penco
• 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. 177-202
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper gives attention to a special point in Brandom¿s Making it Explicit. Brandom proposes in MIE a ¿Fregean¿ way out of Kripke¿s puzzle about belief. In the first part, I analyze two main features of Brandom¿s strategy, the definition of anaphoric chains as senses of proper names and the implausibility of the application of a disquotational principle to proper names. In the second part, I discuss (i) the problem of the stability of contents and (ii) the problem of sharing contents. I claim that Brandom¿s strong holism leads to irresolvable difficulties with the concept of conceptual content as it emerges from the discussion of Kripke¿s puzzle.