About the book

In this book, Andrea Clausen intends to reconcile Kripke's point according to which conceptual content has to be considered as being constituted by social, normative practice - by a process of mutual assessments - with the view that the content of empirical assertions has to be conceived as objective. She criticizes approaches that explicate content-constitutive practice in non-normative terms, namely in terms of sanctioning behavior (Haugeland, Pettit, Esfeld). She also rejects a pragmatist reading of Heidegger that proceeds from thoroughly normative but pre-conceptual practice. She develops and defends a particular reading of an approach that conceives normative, conceptually articulated practice - giving and asking for reasons - as primitive (Brandom, McDowell).

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Andrea Clausen

How can conceptual content be social and normative, and, at the same time, be objective?

LOGOS Vol. 6

eBook for Adobe Reader, ISBN 3-937202-57-9

267 pp., 24,50 Euro. Single licence for Windows, Mac, Unix and Mobile! Special conditions for libraries.