Much of twentieth-century philosophy was organized around the
"linguistic turn," in which metaphysical and epistemological issues
were approached through an analysis of language. This turn was
marked by two assumptions: that it was primarily the semantics of
language that was relevant to broader philosophical issues, and
that declarative assertions were the only verbal acts of serious
philosophical interest. In "'Yo!' and 'Lo!'" Rebecca Kukla and Mark
Lance reject these assumptions. Looking at philosophical problems
starting with the pragmatics of language, they develop a typology
of pragmatic categories of speech within which declaratives have no
uniquely privileged position. They demonstrate that non-declarative
speech acts--including vocative hails ("Yo!") and calls to shared
attention ("Lo!")--are as fundamental to the possibility and
structure of meaningful language as are declaratives.
Entering into conversation with the work of Anglo-American
philosophers such as Wilfrid Sellars, Robert Brandom, and John
McDowell, and Continental philosophers including Heidegger and
Althusser, "'Yo!' and 'Lo!'" offers solutions (or dissolutions) to
long-standing philosophical problems, such as how perception can be
both inferentially fecund and responsive to an empirical world, and
how moral judgment can be both objective and inherently
motivating.
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