From Rules to Meanings

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).

• Introduction: Inferentialism’s Years of Travel and Its Logico-Philosophical Calling Ladislav Koreň and Vojtěch KolmanPart I: Language and Meaning1. Grounding Assertion and Acceptance in Mental Imagery Christopher Gauker2. Semantics: Why Rules Ought to Matter Hans-Johann Glock3. Quine Peregrinating: Norms, Dispositions, and Analyticity Gary Kemp4. Let’s Admit Defeat: Assertion, Denial, and Retraction Bernhard WeissPart II: Logic and Semantics5. Inferentialism, Structure, and Conservativeness Ole Hjortland and Shawn Standefer6. From Logical Expressivism to Expressivist Logics: Sketch of a Program and Some Implementations Robert Brandom7. Inferentialist-Expressivism for Explanatory Vocabulary Jared Millson, Kareem Khalifa, and Mark Risjord8. Logical Expressivism and Logical Relations Lionel Shapiro9. Propositional Contents and the Logical Space Ladislav Koreň10. Assertion, Inference, and the Conditional Peter MilnePart III: Rules, Agency, and Explanation11. Natural Cultural Inferentialism Joseph Rouse12. Inferentialism: Where Do We Go from Here? Jaroslav Peregrin13. The Nature and Diversity of Rules Vladimír Svoboda14. Governed by Rules, or Subjects to Rules? Ondřej BeranPart IV: History and Present15. Inferentialism after Kant Danielle Macbeth16. Inferentialism, Naturalism, and the Ought-To-Be’s of Perceptual Cognition James O’Shea17. Inferentialism and Its Mathematical Precursor Vojtěch Kolman18. Inferentialism and the Reception of Testimony Leila Haaparanta

"This volume provides a timely update on [inferentialism] . . . There is clearly a research program here, one whose participants work closely with related areas in philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, the life sciences, the philosophy of perception, the philosophy of testimony, and the history of philosophy. It will be valuable for those who are either working in these areas, working at the boundaries of these and related areas, or are interested in a state-of-the-art overview of inferentialism as a strand of research that grows out of certain trends in 19th and 20th century European and North American philosophy." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews