Reasoning with Attitude: Foundations and Applications of Inferential Expressivism

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Luca Incurvati (University of Amsterdam) Julian J Schlöder (University of Connecticut)

Reasoning with Attitude

Foundations and Applications of Inferential Expressivism

Luca Incurvati (University of Amsterdam), Julian J Schlöder (University of Connecticut)

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Oxford University Press
25 April 2024

Philosophy: logic; Ethics & moral philosophy; Mathematical logic

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Certain combinations of sounds or signs on paper are meaningful. What makes it the case that, unlike most combinations of sounds or signs, they have meaning? What is this meaning that they have? And what is it to understand this meaning? This book advances new answers to these questions by developing inferential expressivism, a novel approach to the study of meaning which combines elements of the expressivist and inferentialist programs.

Expressivists explain the meaning of words in terms of the attitudes that words are used to express; inferentialists explain the meaning of words in terms of the inferences that words are used to draw. Reasoning with Attitude lays out the foundations of inferential expressivism by defending the view that the meaning of an expression is to be explained in terms of the inferences we draw involving the attitudes we express. As the book shows, by joining forces, expressivism and inferentialism can meet their key challenges whilst retaining their distinctive insights and advantages. Notably, inferential expressivism solves the Frege-Geach Problem plaguing expressivism, and addresses the charge that inferentialism has limited applicability. The book demonstrates the fruitfulness of the inferential expressivist approach by applying it to several open questions in semantics from different areas of inquiry, including epistemic operators and conditionals in the philosophy of language, negation and the truth predicate in the philosophy of logic, and normative vocabulary in meta-ethics.

By: Luca Incurvati (University of Amsterdam), Julian J Schlöder (University of Connecticut)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780197620984
ISBN 10: 0197620981
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 25 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Luca Incurvati is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and in the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. A recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, he has published numerous journal articles in these areas and is the author of Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Julian J. Schlöder is an Assistant Research Professor of Philosophy at the Philosophy Department of the University of Connecticut.