The main idea of the presented considerations is the combination of three ideas: firstly, the idea of philosophy as having a conceptual nature in a broad sense, and containing the autonomous field of inquiry, which are concepts, and which we will call philosophy as a conceptual activity. Secondly, the idea that the origin of the conceptuality or conceptual content is a social practice whose model is the idea of a game of giving and asking for reasons, i.e. Robert Brandom’s semantic inferentialism. Thirdly, the psychological concept of basic cognitive abilities, underlying the social practice, which generates the conceptual content – the game of giving and asking for reasons, i.e. Michael Tomasello’s hypothesis of shared intentionality, and his conception of thinking as a form of cooperation.
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