Title
'Yo!' and 'Lo!' : The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons / Rebecca Kukla, Mark Lance.
ISBN
9780674274396
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (256 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674274396 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
410
Summary
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.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Pragmatism, Pragmatics, and Discourse: Mapping the Terrain
2 Observatives and the Pragmatics of Perception
3 The Pragmatic Structure of Objectivity
4 Anticlimactic Interlude: Why Performatives Are Not That Important to Us
5 Prescriptives and the Metaphysics of Ought-Claims
6 Vocatives, Acknowledgments, and the Pragmatics of Recognition
7 The Essential Second Person
8 Sharing a World
Appendix: Toward a Formal Pragmatics of Normative Statuses
Index
