Author:
Brandom, Robert.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Descriptionx, 430 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Introduction: Five conceptions of rationality -- ONE: TALKING WITH A TRADITION: 1. Contexts: Kant and the shift from epistemology to semantics -- Descartes and the shift from resemblance to representation -- Rationalism and functionalism -- Rationalism and inferentialism -- Hegel and pragmatism -- 2. Texts: Spinoza -- Leibniz -- Hegel -- Frege -- Heidegger -- Sellars -- 3. Pretexts: Methodology: the challenge -- Hermeneutic platitudes -- De dicto Specifications of conceptual content -- De re Specifications of conceptual content -- Tradition and dialogue -- Reconstructive metaphysics -- TWO: HISTORICAL ESSAYS: 4. Adequacy and the individuation of ideas in Spinoza's Ethics -- 5. Leibniz and degrees of perception -- 6. Holism and idealism in Hegel's Phenomenology -- 7. Some pragmatist themes in Hegel's Idealism -- 8. Frege's technical concepts -- 9. The significance of complex numbers for Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics -- 10. Heidegger's categories in Sein und Zeit -- 11. Dasein, the being that thematizes -- 12. The centrality of Sellars's two-ply account of observation to the arguments of "empiricism and the philosophy of mind."
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-407) and index.
