Overview
- Presents innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition
- Offers unique comparison of Weil's work with that of Robert Brandom
- Shows how inferentialist reading of Weil benefits both Weilian studies and inferentialism
Part of the book series: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning (LARI, volume 32)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Éric Weil
- Robert Brandom
- Pragmatism and Expressivism
- Inferentialism and Argumentation
- Philosophical Categories
- Discursive Commitment
- Discursive Attitudes
- Discourse and Violence in Eric Weil’s Logic of Philosophy
- Logic as the Organization of Forms of Coherence
- Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Inferentialism
- Inferentialism in the Logic of Philosophy
- Language of Conflict and Violence
- Logic of Philosophy as a Theory of Argumentation
- Justification and Pluralism in the Logic of Philosophy
- Eric Weil and Argumentation
- Eric Weil’s Three Tier Notion of Justification
- Relativism and Pluralism as Discursive Commitments
- Conceptual Analysis of the Reprise of God
- De Dicto and De Re Ascriptions in a Platonic Space
- Weil’s Critique of Reference
About this book
This volume investigates Eric Weil’s innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition with a focus on violence’s relationship to language and to discourse. Weil presents violence as the central philosophical problem. According to this reading, the western philosophical tradition commonly conceptualizes violence as an expression of error or as a consequence of the weakness of will. However, by doing so, it misses something essential about the role that violence plays in our conceptual development as well as the place violence holds in our discursive practices.
The author draws comparisons between Weil’s work and that of Robert Brandom. Brandom’s inferentialism creates a sophisticated program at the junction of pragmatics and semantics, philosophy of language, logic, and philosophy of mind. The monograph builds on these insights in order to show how an inferentialist reading of Eric Weil is fruitful for both Weilian studies and for inferentialism. This volume will notably be of interest to scholars in philosophy, argumentation theory, and communication studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sequoya Yiaueki is the Director of the Institut Éric Weil and an associate member of Savoirs, Textes, Langage - UMR 8163 CNRS. Outside of his work on Eric Weil's philosophy, his main research interests concern the relationship between language and violence, argumentation, and pragmatism. More specifically, this research focuses on the role of discursive commitments in the development of conceptual content, the way different commitments and contents lead to conflictual inferences, and the pragmatics of violence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Action, Meaning, and Argument in Eric Weil's Logic of Philosophy
Book Subtitle: A Development of Pragmatist, Expressivist, and Inferentialist Themes
Authors: Sequoya Yiaueki
Series Title: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24082-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24081-2Published: 13 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-24084-3Published: 13 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-24082-9Published: 12 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2214-9120
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9139
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 339
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy, general, Linguistics, general, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatism