Hi everyone, The next Macquarie Philosophy seminar will be held on Tuesday 15 April , 11am-1pm, in Room 107, building W6A.
Catherine Legg from University of Waikato will present a paper: "Making it Explicit and Clear: From 'Strong' to 'Hyper-' Inferentialism in Brandom and Peirce" Robert Brandom defends inferentialism, the claim that mental content is most fundamentally analysed as inferential capacities rather than representations. This paper asks how this new and original philosophical framework should be positioned with respect to the broader pragmatist tradition. It is argued that Charles Peirce's original attack (in "Questions Concerning Certain Faculties Claimed for Man" and other early papers) on 'intuition' as a methodology in nineteenth century philosophy of mind is a form of inferentialism, and an antecedent to Brandom relatively unexplored by him in his 'tales of the mighty dead'. An argument is mounted that Peirce shows the way for Brandom to work his ideas through to a clearer and more radical form. All are welcome Cynthia Townley Philosophy Department Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 Australia Tel: +61 2 9850 8812 Fax: +61 2 9850 8892 _______________________________________________ SydPhil mailing list [email protected] List Info: http://lists.arts.usyd.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil NEW LIST ARCHIVE: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
