Robert Brandom - What is Philosophy?

[@aroncanapa5796]

i think my birds enjoyed this as they sung super loud thru all of it

[@manuelemariani4609]

Brandom research is a great syntesis between classical pragmatism and a soft idea of RATIONALISM

[@user.abuser_]

I prefer Rorty's "hard" pragmatism which is only can be considered like a true pragmatism.

[@ВолговВладимир]

Hello Robert. I don't know if you own the account. Greetings from the Russian researchers of Hegel's work. Do you think that the fact that the "absolute spirit" is a synergistic form of mutual recognition in Hegel's philosophy, and the principle of universal self-awareness, can this principle be applied to the relation of classes?

[@musicsubicandcebu1774]

The main purpose of philosophy is to reduce the tension caused by the unconscious repression of facts prohibited from entering conscious awareness. This situation arose via selective processes favouring those who 'didn't know'. Put simply: we are products of natural selection and its rules still apply - those who breed and survive will prevail along with the behaviours that contributed. However, when survival means winning wars then the most violent will survive. They must maintain, if not enhance, their warlike abilities, or risk extinction. Eventually the good guy becomes the bad gay. This is our situation. We cannot see who we are, because the system won't allow it. And the rest is philosophy.

[@newtonswig]

The clearest articulation of Brandom’s metaphilosophy I’ve seen. I want to dig deeper into two things: His business of depsychologising/desociologising/ structurally rehistoricising- this enterprise of instilling understanding of the primacy of conceptual analysis into the literature of a field. Where does he think is ripe for depsychologisation? Are we at the philosophical end of history? Secondly, how his dummetian, not-purely-logical conceptual analysis breaks or works with the categorical imperative. He doesn’t think there’s a magic map to right action, is he talking about CI, or just inferences in general. Does the self conscious applier of concepts not entitle themselves to at least a sense of their own moral rectitude? Any Pitsburgians in the comments?

[@ReflectiveJourney]

I don't think we are at the end of history since other disciplines would still keep making progress and any paradigmatic shift would require re-conceptualization and it is a back and forth between the disciplines. The depsychologising is about delineate the boundaries better and make explicit what was already implicit in the psychological vocabulary use. As far as i understand it, brandom is talking about philosophy as a discipline where the primacy is to do conceptual analysis. it would not be pragmatic to make the conceptual analysis the main focus in any given field. After depsychologising, it doesn't mean that the psychological questions about logic use are moot/unhelpful. it is about bringing clarity. categorical imperatives makes sense if you are working within Kantian framework and don't take the Hegelian turn. He thinks that history of a concept cannot be divorced from its use in inferences. Although, he does say that you ought not to explicitly hold materially incompatible commitments. I am not sure how moral rectitude would fit into the inferential picture anyway other than maybe some phycological benefits.

[@InsertPhilosophyHere]

As long as it is understood that rationality is not the only basis for the application of concepts.

[@horsymandias-ur]

What would other bases be? Do you mean this descriptively or normatively?

[@InsertPhilosophyHere]

@@horsymandias-ur Normatively.

[@HelenBrown-s1j]

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