From Rules to Meanings

This volume's four thematic sections seek to apply inferentialism to a number of core issues, including the nature of meaning and content, reconstructing semantics, rule-oriented models and explanations of social practices and inferentialism's historical influence and dialogue with other philosophical traditions.

Ondřej Beran is a researcher, currently based at the Centre for Ethics (University of Pardubice). His publications, ongoing work, and areas of research interest include the philosophy of language, ethics, the philosophy of religion, and feminist philosophy. He has also translated some of Wittgenstein's works into Czech 　 Vojtěch Kolman is Associate Professor of Logic at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. His research focuses mainly on themes from the philosophy of mathematics, the history of logic, pragmatism, and the philosophy of the arts. He is author of the book Zahlen and numerous articles in international journals (Synthese, Erkenntnis, Hegel-Bulletin, Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Philosophie and others). 　 Ladislav Koreň is the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Hradec Králové and a researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences. His areas of interest include epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of social sciences. His publications include research articles in international journals (Synthese, Journal of Social Ontology) and Volumes (Routledge).

Introduction: Inferentialism's Years of Travel and Its Logico-Philosophical Calling Ladislav Kore- and Vojt-ch Kolman Part I: Language and Meaning 1. Grounding Assertion and Acceptance in Mental Imagery Christopher Gauker 2. Semantics: Why Rules Ought to Matter Hans-Johann Glock 3. Quine Peregrinating: Norms, Dispositions, and Analyticity Gary Kemp 4. Let's Admit Defeat: Assertion, Denial, and Retraction Bernhard Weiss Part II: Logic and Semantics 5. Inferentialism, Structure, and Conservativeness Ole Hjortland and Shawn Standefer 6. From Logical Expressivism to Expressivist Logics: Sketch of a Program and Some Implementations Robert Brandom 7. Inferentialist-Expressivism for Explanatory Vocabulary Jared Millson, Kareem Khalifa, and Mark Risjord 8. Logical Expressivism and Logical Relations Lionel Shapiro 9. Propositional Contents and the Logical Space Ladislav Kore- 10. Assertion, Inference, and the Conditional Peter Milne Part III: Rules, Agency, and Explanation 11. Natural Cultural Inferentialism Joseph Rouse 12. Inferentialism: Where Do We Go from Here? Jaroslav Peregrin 13. The Nature and Diversity of Rules Vladimír Svoboda 14. Governed by Rules, or Subjects to Rules? Ond-ej Beran Part IV: History and Present 15. Inferentialism after Kant Danielle Macbeth 16. Inferentialism, Naturalism, and the Ought-To-Be's of Perceptual Cognition James O'Shea 17. Inferentialism and Its Mathematical Precursor Vojt-ch Kolman 18. Inferentialism and the Reception of Testimony Leila Haaparanta