How can conceptual content be social and normative, and, at the same time, be objective?
Edition: 1 Auflage.
Series: Logos -- 6
Publisher: Ontos Verlag Dr. Rafael H untelmann
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Philosophy; OUR Brockhaus selection
Description: "In this book, Andrea Clausen intends to reconcile Kripke's point according to which conceptual content has to be considered as being constituted by social, normative practice by a process of mutual assessments with the view that the content of empirical assertions has to be conceived as objective. She criticizes approaches that explicate content-constitutive practice in non-normative terms, namely in terms of sanctioning behavior (Haugeland, Pettit, Esfeld). She also rejects a pragmatist reading of Heidegger that proceeds from thoroughly normative but pre-conceptual practice. She develops and defends a particular reading of an approach that conceives normative, conceptually articulated practice giving and asking for reasons as primitive (Brandom, McDowell)."--Jacket.