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Reason in philosophy : animating ideas / / Robert B. Brandom



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Autore: Brandom Robert Visualizza persona
Titolo: Reason in philosophy : animating ideas / / Robert B. Brandom Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: ix, 237 p
Disciplina: 149/.7
Soggetto topico: Rationalism
Reason
Philosophy, Modern
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: Animating ideas of idealism : a semantic sonata in Kant and Hegel -- Norms, selves, and concepts -- Autonomy, community, and freedom -- History, reason, and reality -- Reason and philosophy today -- Reason, expression, and the philosophic enterprise -- Philosophy and the expressive freedom of thought -- Why truth is not important in philosophy -- Three problems with the empiricist conception of concepts -- How analytic philosophy has failed cognitive science.
Sommario/riassunto: Transcendentalism never came to an end in America. It just went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Robert Brandom’s new book. Brandom takes up Kant and Hegel and explores their contemporary significance as if little time had expired since intellectuals gathered around Emerson in Concord to discuss reason and idealism, selves, freedom, and community. Brandom’s discussion belongs to a venerable tradition that distinguishes us as rational animals, and philosophy by its concern to understand, articulate, and explain the notion of reason that is thereby cast in that crucial demarcating role. An emphasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely to represent, has been growing in philosophy over the last thirty years, and Robert Brandom has been at the center of this development. Reason in Philosophy is the first book that gives a succinct overview of his understanding of the role of reason as the structure at once of our minds and our meanings—what constitutes us as free, responsible agents. The job of philosophy is to introduce concepts and develop expressive tools for expanding our self-consciousness as sapients: explicit awareness of our discursive activity of thinking and acting, in the sciences, politics, and the arts. This is a paradigmatic work of contemporary philosophy.
Titolo autorizzato: Reason in philosophy  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-05361-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820018403321
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