CLASS NOTES: 10/12/11 .edu



CLASS NOTES: 10/12/11

READING: ARTICULATING REASONS; BRANDOM (2-22) PTS. 1-9

Understanding the “ing” before the “ed”

1. Acts of Asserting

2. Things Asserted

Sellars

1. Meaning of thoughts

2. Meaning of Words

• The Realm of Ideas is a realm of copies

• The mind is supposed to mirror reality

• Stems from Plato’s mirroring the world of forms

Tangent FYI

Romanticism (19th Century) –movement from realism towards romanticism

Ex.) Picture of the Sea (exaggerated and sublime) used to inspire/evoke emotion (Expressionist Ideals)

Brandom

• Expressive Knowledge production in Science

o Knowledge claims expressive of making explicit your position in a game of giving and asking for reasons

• Knowledge is not a mirror but a lamp that goes out searching. It is productive

• Emphasis on activity of knowing not just passive reflection

Take away Message- Knowing is not mere reflection, but is an active doing. Taking a position in a game of giving and asking for reasons.

Top- Down

o We start with good and bad inference between propositions

o Understand sentence meaning first, word meaning second.

o 2+2=4 2sq=4

Holism (Anatomism)/ Atomism

Meanings concepts can be understood only in relation to the relations that they bare to other propositions

Rationalism= giving reasons

Focus on reasoning and logic is the difference between the rationalist and the Empiricist

One standard way to think of logic is assigning special epistemic access to a kind of truth.

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