Social Institution of Discursive Norms

Leo Townsend is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He works on collective intentionality, social epistemology, and philosophy of language, and has published papers on group speech and group silencing, the nature of trust, collective belief, group agency, and epistemic injustice. Preston Stovall is a postdoctoral researcher in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Hradec Králové. He works on the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and themes in German idealism and American pragmatism.Hans Bernhard Schmid is Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His research interests include social ontology, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Themes in the Study of Human Cognition as a Social PhenomenonPreston Stovall and Leo TownsendPart I. Historical PerspectivesChapter 2. The Fine Structure of Autonomy and RecognitionRobert BrandomChapter 3. I, Thou, and We: Peirce and Brandom on the Objectivity of NormsVitaly Kiryushchenko Chapter 4. Social Roles as Practical Reasons? Questioning Brandomian PragmatismHans Bernhard SchmidPart II. Naturalist PerspectivesChapter 5. Assertion: A Pragmatic GenealogyLadislav KoreňChapter 6. Normative AttitudesJaroslav PeregrinChapter 7. Normative Attitudes, Shared Intentionality, and Discursive CognitionPreston StovallChapter 8. Two Pillars of Institutions: Constitutive Rules and ParticipationWolfgang HuemerPart III. Social-Pragmatic PerspectivesChapter 9. An I without a You? An Exercise in Normative PragmaticsJeremy WandererChapter 10. "I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said": The Pragmatics of RetractionQuill Kukla and Dan SteinbergChapter 11. Discursive Injustice and the Speech of Indigenous CommunitiesLeo TownsendChapter 12. Slurring Speech and Social NormsMihaela Popa-Wyatt