Keeping track of individuals: Brandoms analysis of Kripkes puzzle and the content of belief
Author: Penco, Carlo1
Source: Pragmatics & Cognition, Volume 13, Number 1, 2005 , pp. 177-201(25)
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Abstract:
This paper gives attention to a special point in Brandoms Making it Explicit. Brandom proposes in MIE a Fregean way out of Kripkes puzzle about belief. In the first part, I analyze two main features of Brandoms strategy, the definition of anaphoric chains as senses of proper names and the implausibility of the application of a disquotational principle to proper names. In the second part, I discuss (i) the problem of the stability of contents and (ii) the problem of sharing contents. I claim that Brandoms strong holism leads to irresolvable difficulties with the concept of conceptual content as it emerges from the discussion of Kripkes puzzle.Keywords: anaphora; belief; context; disquotational principle; holism; idiolect; indexical; opacity; pronoun; translation
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1075/pc.13.1.13pen
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