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Tales of the Mighty Dead

Historical Essays in the

Metaphysics of Intentionality

Robert B. Brandom

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

2002

Printed in the United States of America

For my sons, Eric and Russell, exemplary cartesian

products of the mammalian and the discursive-

dear to my heart,fierce and learned in discussion,

and altogether their own special, admirable selves.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PublicationData

Brandom. Robert.

Tales of the mighty dead : historical essays in the metaphysics of

intentionality 1 Robert 8. Brandom.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-674-00903-7 (alk. paper)

1. Philosophy-History. I. Title.

CONTENTS

Introduction: Five Conceptions of Rationality

ONE TALKING WITH A TRADITION

1 Contexts

I. Kant and the Shifttfvom Epistemology to Semantics 21

11. Descartes and the ShifttfuomResemblance

to Representation 24

111. Rationalism and Functionalism 26

IV Rationalism and Inferentialism 28

V Hegel and Pragmatism 31

2 Texts

L Spinoza 34

11. Leibniz 40

IIL Hegel 45

IV Frege 57

V Heidegger 75

VI. Sellars 83

3 Pretexts

I. Methodology: The Challenge 90

11. Hermeneutic Platitudes 92

111. De dicto Specijcations of Conceptual Content 94

I\.! De re Specifications of Conceptual Content 99

V Tradition and Dialogue 107

VI. Reconstructive Metaphysics 11 1

viii

Contents

TWO HISTORICAL ESSAYS

4 Adequacy and the Individuation of Ideas

in Spinoza's Ethics

I. Ideas Do Not Represent Their Correlated

Bodily Objects 121

11. The Individuation of Objects 124

111. The Individuation of Ideas 126

IV Scientia intuitiva 129

V A Proposal about Representation 133

VI. Conatus 136

VII.Ideas of Ideas 139

7 Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism

210

I. Instituting and Applying Determinate Conceptual Norms 21 1

11. Self-Conscious Selves 215

111. Modeling Concepts on Selves:

The Social and Inferential Dimensions 222

IV Modeling Concepts on Selves:

The Historical Dimension 226

8 Frege's Technical Concepts

I. Bell on Sense and Reference 237

11. Sluga on the Development of Frege's Thought 252

111. Frege's Argument 262

5 Leibniz and Degrees of Perception

I. Distinctness of Perception and Distinctness

ofldeas 146

11. A Theory: Expression and lnference 156

9 The Significance of Complex Numbers for Frege's

Philosophy of Mathematics

277

1. Logicism and Platonism 277

11. Singular Terms and Complex Numbers 278

111. The Argument 281

IX Other Problems 284

V Possible Responses 286

VI.Categorically and Hypothetically Specijiable Objects 292

VII. Conclusion 296

6 Holism and Idealism in Hegel's Phenomenology

I. Introduction 178

11. The Problem: Understanding the Determinateness

of the Objective World 178

111. Holism 182

IV Conceptual Difficulties of Strong Holism 187

V A Bad Argument 188

VI. Objective Relations and Subjective Processes 191

VII.Sense Dependence, Reference Dependence,

and Objective Idealism 194

VIII. Beyond Strong Holism: A Model 199

IX. Traversing the Moments: Dialectical Understanding 202

X. Conclusion 208

10 Heidegger's Categories in Sein und Zeit

I. Fundamental Ontology 299

11. Zuhandenheit and Practice 301

111. Mitdasein 309

IV Vorhandenheit and Assertion 312

11 Dasein, the Being That Thematizes

I. Background 324

11. Direct Argumentsfor Dasein's Having Sprache 331

111. No Dasein without Rede 332

IV Rede and Gerede 335

V Falling: Gerede, Neugier, Zweideutigkeit 342

Contents

12 The Centrality of Sellars's Two-Ply Account of

Observation to the Arguments of "Empiricism and the

Philosophy of Mind"

348

Tales of the Mighty Dead

I. Sellarsk Two-Ply Account of Observation 349

11. 'Looks' Talk and Sellars's Diagnosis of the Cartesian

Hypostatization of Appearances 353

111. Two Confirmations of the Analysis of 'Looks' Talk

in Terms of the Two-Ply Account of Observation 357

IV A Rationalist Account of the Acquisition of

Empirical Concepts 359

V Giving Theoretical Concepts an Observational Use 362

VI. Conclusion: On the Relation between the

Two Components 364

Notes

Credits

Index

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