Again, I feel like I am still trying to get to grips with very basic concepts in philosophy – but so it goes. In this very simple post I want to distinguish three different, very broad approaches to objectivity. First approach: ‘full realism’. The idea here is that there is something fully attitude-independent, out there […]| Negative Catallactics
Ok – yet another bite at articulating the ways in which I now differ from Brandom. I think these go into several boxes. ~~ The first is a rejection of the Kantian concept of autonomy. …| Negative Catallactics
Ok. As I’ve said in previous posts, the official position of the blog is now that we can derive everything we might want from Brandomian inferentialism within a Humean/Smithian apparatus that has the following core commitments: 1) a sentimentalist theory of normative conferralism (norms are made real by adopting normative attitudes of approbation and disapprobation […]| Negative Catallactics