EXPRESSIVE COMPLETENESS IN BRANDOM´S MAKING IT EXPLICIT

• Authors: Radek Ocelák
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, the author focuses on the notion of expressive completeness in Robert Brandom’s Making It Explicit. For Brandom as a normative pragmatist, a theory of meaning is expressively complete if it specifies a human practice that is sufficient to confer on expressions conceptual contents so rich that the very conferring practice can be described by means of these expressions. The author puts the notion of expressive completeness in contrast with the related, but non-identical notion of self-referentiality of a semantic theory. Further, he examines the position of the concept in Brandom’s philosophical project: he assesses the justification Brandom provides for his claim of expressive completeness of the presented theory, and he outlines the consequences he can draw for his overall project provided that expressive completeness is achieved. Whether it is actually achieved, remains however an open question.

Keywords

EN

EXPRESSIVE COMPLETENESS; NORMATIVE PRAGMATISM; ROBERT BRANDOM; SELF-REFERENTIALITY; THEORY OF MEANING

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 327 – 337

Contributors

author

Radek Ocelák

• Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, 116 38 Prague, Czech Republic