Robert Brandom's semantic inferentialism
An introduction to its historical evolution and limits
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Inferentialism, Semantics, Robert Brandom, Wilfrid Sellars, PragmatismAbstract
This article aims to introduce the thesis of semantic inferentialism as developed by the North American philosopher Robert Brandom. This introduction will be carried out in two fronts: first, through Brandom’s historical narrative, where the inferentialist thesis stands as its peak, and where the German idealist and American pragmatist traditions have their places as pivotal turning points; secondly, from the problems and challenges this thesis holds, especially from the problem of how to approach the relation between world and meaning. I thus conclude that the inferentialist thesis is composed by two facets: one turned towards the past, where it aims to extract its lessons from, and another turned towards the future, where it aims to overcome its difficulties.
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