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Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment
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Making It Explicit is an investigation into the nature of language that revises the very terms of inquiry into the relation between language and mind.
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What Stands Out
Enhanced Reasoning Skills
This edition emphasizes critical thinking techniques, enabling readers to develop and refine their reasoning abilities for improved problem-solving and decision-making in various contexts.
Diverse Representation
The book provides various frameworks for representing knowledge, catering to different learning styles and enhancing comprehension, ensuring accessibility for a wider audience.
Commitment to Discourse
It includes practical strategies for fostering discursive commitment, helping readers understand the importance of collaboration and dialogue in reasoning processes, ultimately improving interpersonal communication skills.
Product Details
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Publication date | November 1, 1998 |
| Edition | 2nd Edition |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 768 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0674543300 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0674543300 |
| Item Weight | 2.2 pounds (1 kg) |
| Dimensions | 6.37 x 1.3 x 9.25 inches (16.2 x 3.3 x 23.5 cm) |
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Philosophy Students
Ideal for students studying philosophy, especially those engaging with logical reasoning and argument analysis.
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Educators
Beneficial for teachers looking for enhanced methods in teaching critical thinking and discursive practices.
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Researchers
Useful for scholars engaged in fields like linguistics, cognitive science, or communication studies researching discursive commitments.
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Casual Readers
Not appropriate for casual readers seeking entertainment; it’s complex and academically focused.
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Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment
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Epistemology Editorial Review
Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment in Second Printing Edition, by Robert Brandom, is a challenging but rewarding book that aims to explain the workings of language without relying on traditional concepts of reference and representation. Brandom bridges the gap between semantics and pragmatics, accounts for the behavior of indexicals, explains the nature of logic, and describes the cognitive effects of language on its interlocutors. Although the writing is difficult to follow and arguments are sometimes unclear, Brandom's unique and stimulating views are heavily influenced by Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, Michael Dummet, Wilfrid Sellars, Donald Davidson, and John McDowell. The inferential structure of content, analyzed as being identified inferentially (inferential role semantics), contains three levels - propositional, sub-sentential conceptual, and conceptual content of non-repeatable tokenings of linguistic expressions. Making It Explicit is not an easy read, yet anyone who has the opportunity to read it will come out enlightened and enriched. Readers should be familiar with the work of at least a couple of the philosophers mentioned above and analytic philosophy of language in general before delving into the book. **
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- Unique and stimulating views on language without traditional concepts of reference and representation
- Bridges gap between semantics and pragmatics
- Accounts for behavior of indexicals, explains nature of logic, and describes cognitive effects of language
- Analyzes inferential structure of content in satisfying detail
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- Difficult to read and arguments are sometimes unclear
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- Investigates the nature of language and its relation to the mind
- Revises traditional accounts of the relation between language and mind
- Presents an alternate approach based on inference and implicit assessment
- Explains how semantic content is conferred on expressions and attitudes through social practices
- Centers on the notion of discursive commitment and the mastery of practices governing commitments
- Defines the expressive role of logical vocabulary in language, mind, and logic
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