Brandom's Burdens: Compositionality and Inferentialism [Book Review]

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (2):465-481 (2001)
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Robert Brandom has it in mind to run a ‘pragmatist’ theory of content. That is, he wants to reconstruct notions like saying such and such or believing such and such in terms of a distinctive kind of “knowing how or being able to do something”.

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