About the Authors

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. About the Authors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Formal truth and objective reference in an inferentialist setting 7
6. The nature of meaning: Brandom versus Chomsky 35
7. The father, the son, and the daughter: Sellars, Brandom, and Millikan 53
8. A deflationist theory of intentionality? Brandom's analysis of de re specifying attitude-ascriptions 65
9. Transcendental deduction of predicative structure in Kant and Brandom 83
10. Meaning, justification, and truth 99
11. Motivating inferentialism: Comments on Making it Explicit (Ch. 2) 109
12. Pragmatics, Pittsburgh style 127
13. Brandom's solution of the objectivity problem 147
14. Keeping track of individuals: Brandom's analysis of Kripke's puzzle and the content of belief 163
15. Scorekeeping in a defective language game 187
16. Response 209
17. Index of persons 231
18. Index of topics 233