Tales of the mighty dead : historical essays in the metaphysics of intentionality / Robert B. Brandom.
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Five Conceptions of Rationality
- 1. Talking with a Tradition
- 1. Contexts
- I. Kant and the Shift from Epistemology to Semantics
- II. Descartes and the Shift from Resemblance to Representation
- III. Rationalism and Functionalism
- IV. Rationalism and Inferentialism
- V. Hegel and Pragmatism
- 2. Texts
- I. Spinoza
- II. Leibniz
- III. Hegel
- IV. Frege
- V. Heidegger
- VI. Sellars
- 3. Pretexts
- I. Methodology: The Challenge
- II. Hermeneutic Platitudes
- III. De dicto Specifications of Conceptual Content
- IV. De re Specifications of Conceptual Content
- V. Tradition and Dialogue
- VI. Reconstructive Metaphysics
- 2. Historical Essays
- 4. Adequacy and the Individuation of Ideas in Spinoza's Ethics
- I. Ideas Do Not Represent Their Correlated Bodily Objects
- II. The Individuation of Objects
- III. The Individuation of Ideas
- IV. Scientia intuitiva
- V. A Proposal about Representation
- VI. Conatus
- VII. Ideas of Ideas
- 5. Leibniz and Degrees of Perception
- I. Distinctness of Perception and Distinctness of Ideas
- II. A Theory: Expression and Inference
- 6. Holism and Idealism in Hegel's Phenomenology
- I. Introduction
- II. The Problem: Understanding the Determinateness of the Objective World
- III. Holism
- IV. Conceptual Difficulties of Strong Holism
- V. A Bad Argument
- VI. Objective Relations and Subjective Processes
- VII. Sense Dependence, Reference Dependence, and Objective Idealism
- VIII. Beyond Strong Holism: A Model
- IX. Traversing the Moments: Dialectical Understanding
- 7. Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism
- I. Instituting and Applying Determinate Conceptual Norms
- II. Self-Conscious Selves
- III. Modeling Concepts on Selves: The Social and Inferential Dimensions
- IV. Modeling Concepts on Selves: The Historical Dimension
- 8. Frege's Technical Concepts
- I. Bell on Sense and Reference
- II. Sluga on the Development of Frege's Thought
- III. Frege's Argument
- 9. The Significance of Complex Numbers for Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics
- I. Logicism and Platonism
- II. Singular Terms and Complex Numbers
- III. The Argument
- IV. Other Problems
- V. Possible Responses
- VI. Categorically and Hypothetically Specifiable Objects
- 10. Heidegger's Categories in Sein und Zeit
- I. Fundamental Ontology
- II. Zuhandenheit and Practice
- III. Mitdasein
- IV. Vorhandenheit and Assertion
- 11. Dasein, the Being That Thematizes
- I. Background
- II. Direct Arguments for Dasein's Having Sprache
- III. No Dasein without Rede
- IV. Rede and Gerede
- V. Falling: Gerede, Neugier, Zweideutigkeit
- 12. The Centrality to Sellars's Two-Ply Account of Observation to the Arguments of "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"
- I. Sellars's Two-Ply Account of Observation
- II. 'Looks' Talk and Sellars's Diagnosis of the Cartesian Hypostatization of Appearances
- III. Two Confirmations of the Analysis of 'Looks' Talk in Terms of the Two-Ply Account of Observation
- IV. A Rationalist Account of the Acquisition of Empirical Concepts
- V. Giving Theoretical Concepts an Observational Use
- VI. Conclusion: On the Relation between the Two Components
- Notes
- Credits
- Index.