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This book investigates the role and significance that examples play
in shaping arguments and thought, both in philosophy and in
everyday life. It addresses questions about how our moral thinking
is informed by our conceptual practices, especially in ways related
to the relationship between ethics and literature,
post-Wittgensteinian ethics, or meta-philosophical concerns about
the style of philosophical writing. Written in an accessible and
non-technical style, the book uses examples from real-life events
or pieces of well-known fictional stories to introduce its
discussions. In doing so, it demonstrates the complex way examples,
rather than exemplifying philosophical points, inform and condition
how we approach the points for which we want to argue. The author
shows how examples guide or block our understanding in certain
directions, how they do this by stressing morally relevant aspects
or dimensions of the terms, and how the sense of moral seriousness
allows us to learn from examples. The final chapter explores
whether these kinds of engagement with examples can be understood
as "thinking primarily through examples." Examples and Their Role
in Our Thinking will be of interest to scholars and graduate
students working in ethics and moral philosophy, philosophy of
language, and philosophy of literature.
Inferentialism is a philosophical approach premised on the claim
that an item of language (or thought) acquires meaning (or content)
in virtue of being embedded in an intricate set of social practices
normatively governed by inferential rules. Inferentialism found its
paradigmatic formulation in Robert Brandom's landmark book Making
it Explicit, and over the last two decades it has established
itself as one of the leading research programs in the philosophy of
language and the philosophy of logic. While Brandom's version of
inferentialism has received wide attention in the philosophical
literature, thinkers friendly to inferentialism have proposed and
developed new lines of inquiry that merit wider recognition and
critical appraisal. From Rules to Meaning brings together new
essays that systematically develop, compare, assess and critically
react to some of the most pertinent recent trends in
inferentialism. The book's four thematic sections seek to apply
inferentialism to a number of core issues, including the nature of
meaning and content, reconstructing semantics, rule-oriented models
and explanations of social practices and inferentialism's
historical influence and dialogue with other philosophical
traditions. With contributions from a number of distinguished
philosophers-including Robert Brandom and Jaroslav Peregrin-this
volume is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on
the foundations of logic and language.
Inferentialism is a philosophical approach premised on the claim
that an item of language (or thought) acquires meaning (or content)
in virtue of being embedded in an intricate set of social practices
normatively governed by inferential rules. Inferentialism found its
paradigmatic formulation in Robert Brandom's landmark book Making
it Explicit, and over the last two decades it has established
itself as one of the leading research programs in the philosophy of
language and the philosophy of logic. While Brandom's version of
inferentialism has received wide attention in the philosophical
literature, thinkers friendly to inferentialism have proposed and
developed new lines of inquiry that merit wider recognition and
critical appraisal. From Rules to Meaning brings together new
essays that systematically develop, compare, assess and critically
react to some of the most pertinent recent trends in
inferentialism. The book's four thematic sections seek to apply
inferentialism to a number of core issues, including the nature of
meaning and content, reconstructing semantics, rule-oriented models
and explanations of social practices and inferentialism's
historical influence and dialogue with other philosophical
traditions. With contributions from a number of distinguished
philosophers-including Robert Brandom and Jaroslav Peregrin-this
volume is a major contribution to the philosophical literature on
the foundations of logic and language.
The book proposes to see the talk about rules-following as a way of
giving an account of particular people's characters and their
lives. This focus on understanding others as variously coping with
the claims of particular rules attempts to specify the variety of
"attitudes towards a soul" as discussed in the Wittgensteinian
tradition. The book derives from the philosophical tradition that
considers human beings as rule-following creatures. It suggests
that rules followed by other people allow for understanding and
sympathising with them. Coping with rules is explored as a
complicated lived practice, with respect to: particularised rules
holding in relation to a context or to individual people, the
variety of our responses to rules we are subject to, or our failure
in coping with them.
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