Some General Resources on Brandom’s Philosophy of Language
Week 1: Introduction
Week 1 Materials
- Handout for Week 1
- Week 1 Notes
- “Intentionality and Language: A Normative, Pragmatist, Inferentialist Approach”
- Introduction to Articulating Reasons
- Preface to Making It Explicit
- Audio Recording of Week 1, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 1, Part Two
Week 2: Normative Pragmatics and Analytic Pragmatism
Week 2 Materials
- Week 2 Notes
- MIE Chapter One: Toward a Normative Pragmatics
- BSD Chapter One: Extending the Project of Analysis
- Audio Recording of Week 2, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 2, Part Two
Week 3: Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism
Week 3 Materials
- Week 3 Notes
- Articulating Reasons Chapter One: Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism
- MIE Chapter Two: Towards an Inferential Semantics
- BSD Chapter Two: Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic
- Audio Recording of Week 3, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 3, Part Two
Supplementary Materials for Week 3
- “Truth and Assertibility”
- “From Logical Expressivism to Expressivist Logics”
- “How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science”
- “Adequacy and the Individuation of Ideas in Spinoza’s Ethics”
- “Leibniz and Degrees of Perception”
Week 4: Pragmatics as Discursive Scorekeeping
Week 4 Materials
- Week 4 Notes
- MIE Chapter Three: Linguistic Practice and Discursive Commitment
- BSD Chapter Three: Artificial Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism
- “Conceptual Content and Discursive Practice”
- Audio Recording of Week 4, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 4, Part Two
Supplementary Materials for Week 4
Week 5: Perception and Action
Week 5 Materials
- Week 5 Notes
- Articulating Reasons Chapter Three: Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism
- Articulating Reasons Chapter Two: Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning
- Making It Explicit Chapter Four: Perception and Action
- Audio Recording of Week 5, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 5, Part Two
Supplementary Materials for Week 5
- Sellars: “Some Reflections on Language Games”
- “The Centrality of Sellars’s Two-Ply Account of Observation”
- “Noninferential Knowledge, Secondary Qualities, and Perceptual Experience”
- “What Do Expressions of Preference Express?”
Week 6: Deontic and Alethic Modal Vocabulary
Week 6 Materials
Supplementary Materials for Week 6
- Analytic Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Modality
- “Modal Expressivism and Modal Realism: Together, Again”
- “On the Way to a Pragmatist Theory of the Categories”
- “Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars”
Week 7: Singular Terms and Subsentential Structure
Week 7 Materials
- Week 7 Handout 1
- Week 7 Handout 2
- Week 7 Notes
- Articulating Reasons Chapter Four: What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?
- Making It Explicit Chapter Six: Substitution
- Audio Recording of Week 7, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 7, Part Two
Supplementary Materials for Week 7
- “Singular Terms and Sentential Sign Designs”
- van Fraassen: “Quantification as an Act of Mind”
- “Understanding the Object/Property Structure in Terms of Negation”
- “The Significance of Complex Numbers for Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics”
Week 8: Anaphora and Token-Recurrence Structures
Week 8 Materials
- Week 8 Handout
- Week 8 Notes
- MIE Chapter Five
- MIE Chapter Seven
- Audio Recording of Week 8, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 8, Part Two
Supplementary Materials for Week 8
Week 9: Ascriptions of Propositional Attitude: De Dicto and De Re
Week 9 Materials
Supplementary Materials for Week 9
Week 10: Proper Names, Indexicals, and Representation
Week 10 Materials
- Week 10 Handout
- Week 10 Notes
- Articulating Reasons Chapter Six: Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality
- Audio Recording of Week 10, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 10, Part Two
Week 11: Normativity, Modality, and Intentionality
Week 11 Materials
- Week 11 Notes
- BSD Chapter Six: Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation
- Audio Recording of Week 11, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 11, Part Two
Week 12: Discursive Practice and Semantic and Pragmatic Theory
Week 12 Materials
- Week 12 Notes
- MIE Chapter Nine: Conclusion
- Audio Recording of Week 12, Part One
- Audio Recording of Week 12, Part Two