TY - GEN N2 - Much of twentieth-century philosophy was organized around the "linguistic turn," in which metaphysical and epistemological issues were approached through an analysis of language. This turn was marked by two assumptions: that it was primarily the semantics of language that was relevant to broader philosophical issues, and that declarative assertions were the only verbal acts of serious philosophical interest. In 'Yo!' and 'Lo!' Rebecca Kukla and Mark Lance reject these assumptions. Looking at philosophical problems starting with the pragmatics of language, they develop a typology of pragmatic categories of speech within which declaratives have no uniquely privileged position. They demonstrate that non-declarative speech acts-including vocative hails ("Yo!") and calls to shared attention ("Lo!")-are as fundamental to the possibility and structure of meaningful language as are declaratives. Entering into conversation with the work of Anglo-American philosophers such as Wilfrid Sellars, Robert Brandom, and John McDowell, and Continental philosophers including Heidegger and Althusser, 'Yo!' and 'Lo!' offers solutions (or dissolutions) to long-standing philosophical problems, such as how perception can be both inferentially fecund and responsive to an empirical world, and how moral judgment can be both objective and inherently motivating. DO - 10.4159/9780674274396 DO - doi AB - Much of twentieth-century philosophy was organized around the "linguistic turn," in which metaphysical and epistemological issues were approached through an analysis of language. This turn was marked by two assumptions: that it was primarily the semantics of language that was relevant to broader philosophical issues, and that declarative assertions were the only verbal acts of serious philosophical interest. In 'Yo!' and 'Lo!' Rebecca Kukla and Mark Lance reject these assumptions. Looking at philosophical problems starting with the pragmatics of language, they develop a typology of pragmatic categories of speech within which declaratives have no uniquely privileged position. They demonstrate that non-declarative speech acts-including vocative hails ("Yo!") and calls to shared attention ("Lo!")-are as fundamental to the possibility and structure of meaningful language as are declaratives. Entering into conversation with the work of Anglo-American philosophers such as Wilfrid Sellars, Robert Brandom, and John McDowell, and Continental philosophers including Heidegger and Althusser, 'Yo!' and 'Lo!' offers solutions (or dissolutions) to long-standing philosophical problems, such as how perception can be both inferentially fecund and responsive to an empirical world, and how moral judgment can be both objective and inherently motivating. T1 - 'Yo!' and 'Lo!' :The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons / AU - Kukla, Rebecca, AU - Lance, Mark, AU - Restall, With Greg, JF - HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 JF - Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1479377 KW - Language and languages KW - Pragmatics. KW - Speech acts (Linguistics). KW - PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology. SN - 9780674274396 TI - 'Yo!' and 'Lo!' :The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674274396 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674274396 ER -