“Philosophy is a discipline whose distinctive concern is with a certain kind of self-consciousness: awareness of ourselves as specifically discursive (that is, concept-mongering) creatures. Its task is understanding the conditions, nature, and consequences of conceptual norms and the activities—starting with the social practices of giving and asking for reasons—that they make possible and that make them possible. As concept users, we are beings who can make explicit how things are and what we are doing—even if always only in relief against a background of implicit circumstances, conditions, skills, and practices. Among the things on which we can bring our explicitating capacities to bear are those very concept-using capacities that make it possible to make anything at all explicit. Doing that is philosophizing.” (Brandom 2009:18)
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:58:13 +0000
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