Practices of Reason

This book offers new insights into the nature of human rational capacities by engaging inferentialism with empirical research in the cognitive sciences.

Ladislav Kore- is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sceinces, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. His areas of interest include epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of social sciences. His work has been published in international journals including Synthese, Inquiry, and Journal of Social Ontology. He is the co-editor, with Ond-ej Beran and Vojt-ch Kolman, of From Rules to Meanings: New Essays on Inferentialism (Routledge, 2018). He is also the coeditor, with Hans Bernhard Schmid, Preston Stovall and Leo Townsend, of Groups, Norms and Practices: Essays on Inferentialism and Collective Intentionality (2021).

1. Introduction Part I: Moving in the Space of Reasons 2. Assertion: A Pragmatic Genealogy 3. Articulating a Space of Reasons Part II: The Nature of Reasoning 4. Reasoning: An Interactionist Approach 5. Reasoning as Giving and Asking for Reasons Part III: From Intersubjectivity to Objective Thought 6. Shared World: Intersubjective Foundations 7. Objective Thought Postscript