From Rules to Meanings

New Essays on Inferentialism

By: OndÅ?ej Beran (Editor), VojtÄ?ch Kolman (Editor), Ladislav KoreÅ? (Editor)

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Hardcover | 7 February 2018 | Edition Number 1

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Inferentialism is a philosophical approach premised on the claim that an item of language (or thought) acquires meaning (or content) in virtue of being embedded in an intricate set of social practices normatively governed by inferential rules. Inferentialism found its paradigmatic formulation in Robert Brandomâs landmark book Making it Explicit, and over the last two decades it has established itself as one of the leading research programs in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of logic. While Brandomâs version of inferentialism has received wide attention in the philosophical literature, thinkers friendly to inferentialism have proposed and developed new lines of inquiry that merit wider recognition and critical appraisal.

From Rules to Meaning brings together new essays that systematically develop, compare, assess and critically react to some of the most pertinent recent trends in inferentialism. The bookâs four thematic sections seek to apply inferentialism to a number of core issues, including the nature of meaning and content, reconstructing semantics, rule-oriented models and explanations of social practices and inferentialismâs historical influence and dialogue with other philosophical traditions. With contributions from a number of distinguished philosophersâ"including Robert Brandom and Jaroslav Peregrinâ"this volume is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on the foundations of logic and language.

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"This volume provides a timely update on [inferentialism] . . . There is clearly a research program here, one whose participants work closely with related areas in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, the life sciences, the philosophy of perception, the philosophy of testimony, and the history of philosophy. It will be valuable for those who are either working in these areas, working at the boundaries of these and related areas, or are interested in a state-of-the-art overview of inferentialism as a strand of research that grows out of certain trends in 19th and 20th century European and North American philosophy." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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