Disagreement, Error and Two Senses of Incompatibility The Relational Function of Discursive Updating

Workshop on Bob Brandom's Recent Philosophy of Language: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

Tanja Pritzlaff

PID  :  80110

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

In Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism, Robert B. Brandom puts forward a general method of formally representing relations between meaning and use(between vocabularies and practicesorabilities) and shows how discursive intentionality canbe understood as a pragmatically mediated semantic relation. In this context, the activity thatpragmatically mediates the semantic relations characteristic of discursive intentionality is speci fied as a practice of discursive updatinga practice of rectifying commitments and removingincompatibilities. The aim of the paper is to take a closer look at the practice of discursiveupdating and to show that the inconsistencies, errors and failures in discursive practice that formthe basis for the described update function can only be fully understood against the backgroundof an agent’s membership in the discursive communityi.e. if one looks at the explicitly social