Week 1. August 31, 2022
Introduction to the Course
A Metarationalist Perspective on Language, Logic, and Meaning
- Read Brandom, Articulating Reasons Introduction, pp. 1-35.
- Read Brandom, “Intentionality and Language: A Normative, Pragmatist, Inferentialist Approach”.
Week 1 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 1: Introduction
- Brandom’s notes for Meeting 1: Introduction
- Video of Meeting 1: Introduction
- Audio of Meeting 1: Introduction
Supplementary
Week 2. September 7, 2022
Pragmatics I
The ‘Vocabulary’ Vocabulary, and
Normative Pragmatic Metavocabularies for Autonomous Discursive Practices
- Read Brandom, Making It Explicit, Chapter One.
- Read Brandom, Articulating Reasons, Chapter Six, pp. 185-196.
Week 2 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 2: Pragmatics I -Brandom’s notes for Meeting 2: Pragmatics I
- Video of Meeting 2: Pragmatics I
- Audio of Meeting 2: Pragmatics I
- Pragmatic Metavocabulary Meaning-Use Diagram
Supplementary
Week 3. September 14, 2022
Pragmatics II
A Deepened Normative Bilateralism and Reason Relations
- Read Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons Chapter 1 (draft).
- Read MacFarlane “In What Sense (If Any) is Logic Normative for Thought?”
Week 3 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 3: Pragmatics II
- Brandom’s notes for Meeting 3: Pragmatics II
- Video of Meeting 3: Pragmatics II
- Audio of Meeting 3: Pragmatics II
Supplementary Material
Restall “Multiple Conclusions”
Week 4. September 21, 2022
Reason Relations I
The Open Structure of Non-Logical Reason Relations
- Read Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons, Introduction (draft), pp. 14-32.
- Read Brandom, “From Logical Expressivism to Expressivist Logics” Sections I, II (pp. 1-9).
- Read Brandom, “On the Structure of Reasons: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Logic,” Section V (pp. 36-45).
Week 4 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 4: Reason Relations I
- Brandom’s notes for Meeting 4: Reason Relations I
- Video of Meeting 4: Reason Relations I
- Audio of Meeting 4: Reason Relations I
Supplementary Material
Week 5. September 28, 2022
Reason Relations II
What are the relations between reasons and logic?
Metavocabularies
- Read Brandom, “From Logical Expressivism to Expressivist Logics” Sections III-VI (pp. 9-23).
- Read Brandom, Articulating Reasons, Chapter One.
Week 5 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 5: Reason Relations II
- Brandom’s notes for Meeting 5: Reason Relations II
- Video of Meeting 5: Reason Relations II
- Audio of Meeting 5: Reason Relations II
Supplementary Material
- Hlobil “Choosing Your Nonmonotonic Logic: A Shopper’s Guide.”
- Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons, Introduction.
- Ripley “On the ’transitivity’ of consequence relations”
Week 6. October 5, 2022
Logic I
Logical Expressivism. Sequent Calculi and NM-MS
- Read Kaplan, “A Multi-Succedent Sequent Calculus for Logical Expressivists”
- Read Brandom, “On the Structure of Reasons: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Logic,” Section VI (pp. 46-56).
Week 6 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 6: Logic I
- Brandom’s notes for Meeting 6: Logic I
- Video of Meeting 6: Logic I
- Audio of Meeting 6: Logic I
Supplementary Material
- Gentzen “Investigation into Logical Deduction,” Section III, pp. 295-306.
- Brandom Between Saying and Doing, Chapter Two
- Kaplan Pitt Dissertation 2021 “Substructural Content” pp. 1-39.
Week 7. October 12, 2022
Logic II
Logical Expressivism and Expressive Completeness: A Representation Theorem
With Special Guest Star: Dan Kaplan
- Read Kaplan Selections from his 2021 Pitt Ph.D. Dissertation “Substructural Content”
- Read Brandom, “On the Structure of Reasons: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Logic,” Section VII (pp. 57-68).
Week 7 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 7: Logic II
- Bob’s Notes for Meeting 7: Logic II
- Dan Kaplan’s Notes for Meeting 7: Logic II
- Video of Meeting 7: Logic II
- Audio of Meeting 7: Logic II
Supplementary Material
Brandom “Reasoning, Reason Relations, and Semantics”
Week 8. October 19, 2022
Semantics I
Truthmaker Semantics, Bilateralism, and Reason Relations
With Special Guest Star: Ulf Hlobil
- Read Hlobil, Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons, Chapter 4 (old 3) draft
- Read Hlobil, “The Laws of Thought and the Laws of Truth as Two Sides of One Coin”**
Week 8 Materials
- Bob’s Handout for Meeting 8: Semantics I -
- Ulf’s slides for Meeting 8: “Truth-Taking and Truth-Making”
- Video of Meeting 8: Semantics I
- Audio of Meeting 8: Semantics I
Supplementary Material
Fine, “A Theory of Truthmaker Content I”**
Week 9. October 26, 2022
Semantics II
Implication-Space Semantics
With Special Guest Star: Dan Kaplan
- Read Hlobil, Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons, Chapter 5 (draft)
- Read Brandom, “On the Structure of Reasons: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Logic,” Section IV (pp. 23-35).
Week 9 Materials
- Bob’s Handout for Meeting 9: Semantics II
- Dan Kaplan’s Notes for Meeting 9: Semantics II
- Bob’s Notes for Meeting 9: Semantics II
- Video of Meeting 9: Semantics II
- Audio of Meeting 9: Semantics II
Supplementary Material
Simonelli, “Simply Substructural Semantics”
New and Improved: Week 10. November 2, 2022
Bimodal Conceptual Realism and Intrinsic Conceptual Role Semantics
Week 10 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 10: Bimodal Conceptual Realism and Intrinsic Conceptual Role Semantics
- Bob’s Notes for Meeting 10: Bimodal Conceptual Realism and Intrinsic Conceptual Role Semantics
- Video of Meeting 10: Bimodal Conceptual Realism and Intrinsic Conceptual Role Semantics
- Audio of Meeting 10: Bimodal Conceptual Realism and Intrinsic Conceptual Role Semantics
Original Recipe: Week 10
Metalinguistic Expressivism I
Beyond Semantic and Pragmatic Metavocabularies
- Read Brandom, Between Saying and Doing, Chapter One.
- Read Brandom, “On the Way to a Pragmatist Theory of the Categories”
Week 10 Materials
This session turned into a ghost over Halloween, and was absorbed back into Geist
It is immaterial. See the New and Improved Week 10.
Supplementary Material
Brandom, “Sellars’s Metalinguistic Expressive Nominalism” (from From Empiricism to Expressivism).
Week 11. November 9, 2022
Metalinguistic Expressivism
Alethic Modal Metavocabularies
- Read Brandom, “Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars”
- Read Brandom, “Modal Expressivism and Modal Realism: Together Again”
(These are Chapters 4 and 5 of From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars.)
Week 11 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 11: Alethic Modal Vocabulary
- Bob’s Notes for Meeting 11: Alethic Modal Vocabulary
- Video of Meeting 11: Alethic Modal Vocabulary -
- Audio of Meeting 11: Alethic Modal Vocabulary
Week 12. November 16, 2021
Representation, Description, and Fact Stating
Alethic and Deontic Metavocabularies Entangled
Covariant Tracking and Normative Governance
Week 12 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 12: Representation and Description
- Bob’s Notes for Meeting 12: Representation and Description
- Video of Meeting 12: Representation and Description
- Audio of Meeting 12: Representation and Description
No Class November 23, 2022
Thanksgiving Holiday Break
Week 13. November 30, 2022
Ongoing Projects
Dialogic Pragmatics and Monadologics
Week 13 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 13: Ongoing Projects: Dialogic Pragmatics and Monadologics
- Bob’s Notes for Meeting 13: Ongoing Projects: Dialogic Pragmatics and Monadologics
- Video of Meeting 13: Ongoing Projects: Dialogic Pragmatics and Monadologics
- Audio of Meeting 13: Ongoing Projects: Dialogic Pragmatics and Monadologic
- User-friendly front end for DP1 Python program: dp_inquiry.py
- Basic Python DP1 program: dpmain.py**
Week 14. December 7, 2022
Conclusion
Discursive Metarationalism
Week 14 Materials
- Handout for Meeting 14: Conclusion: Discursive Metarationalism**
- Video of Meeting 14: Conclusion: Discursive Metarationalism**
- Audio of Meeting 14: Conclusion: Discursive Metarationalism**
