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Genuine Normativity, Expressive Bootstrapping, and Normative Phenomenalism
Lauer, David
2009
Abstract
In this paper, I offer a detailed critical reading of Robert Brandom’s project to give an
expressive bootstrapping account of intentionality, cashed out as a normativephenomenalist
account of what I will call genuine normativity. I claim that there is a
reading of Making It Explicit that evades the predominant charges of either reductionism
or circularity. However, making sense of Brandom’s book in the way proposed here involves
correcting Brandom’s own general account of what he is doing in it, and thus presenting
the argumentative structure of Making It Explicit in a new light.
Series
Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
XI (2009) 1
Subjects
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
David Lauer, "Genuine Normativity, Expressive Bootstrapping, and Normative Phenomenalism", in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, XI (2009) 1, pp. 321-350
Languages
en
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