This book is about rules, and especially about human capability to
create, maintain and follow rules, as a root of what makes us
humans different from other animals. The leading idea is that
scrutinizing this capability is able to tell us who we humans are
and what kinds of lives we live. It elaborates Wilfrid Sellars'
visionary observation that "to say that man is a rational animal,
is to say that man is a creature not of habits, but of rules"; and
it builds on the ideas of Sellars' and Brandom's inferentialism, in
a novel naturalistic way. The main tenet of inferentialism is that
our language games are essentially rule-governed and that meanings
are inferential roles. Jaroslav Peregrin sees the task of
reconciliation of inferentialism and naturalism as centered around
the problem of naturalization of rules. He argues that the most
primitive form of a rule is a cluster of normative attitudes. We
humans are specific by our tendency assume peculiar attitudes to
what we do, and to do so in a specific way, which turns the
attitudes into "normative" ones. This self-reflective structure
characterizes our ability to build systems of interconnected rules,
which have come to constitute our natural niche. Furthermore,
Peregrin shows how our most important system of rules—that
constitutive of our language—helped to lead us to our current
position of rule-following, ultra-social, rational, and discursive
creatures. Normative Species will be of interest to scholars and
advanced students working in philosophy of language, philosophy of
mind, social ontology, cultural evolution, and cognitive science.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| First published: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Jaroslav Peregrin
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
212 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-248403-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-03-248403-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781032484037 |
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