The Social Institution of Discursive Norms : Historical, Naturalistic, and Pragmatic Perspectives

The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms—the norms governing our thought and talk—are profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure our social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social and institutional structures. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. The first offers historical perspectives on discursive norms, including a chapter by Robert Brandom on the way Hegel transformed Kant’s normativist approach to representation by adding both a social and a historicist dimension to it. Section II features four chapters that examine the sociality of normativity from within a broadly naturalistic framework. The third and final section focuses on the social dimension of linguistic phenomena such as online speech acts, oppressive speech, and assertions. __The Social Institution of Discursive Norms__ will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy. The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms—the norms governing our thought and talk—are profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure of social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social and institutional structures. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 1 Introduction: Themes in the Study of Human Cognition as a Social Phenomenon 10 PART I: Historical Perspectives 32 2 The Fine Structure of Autonomy and Recognition: The Institution of Normative Statuses by Normative Attitudes 34 3 I, Thou, and We: Peirce and Brandom on the Objectivity of Norms 58 4 Social Roles as Practical Reasons? Questioning Brandomian Pragmatism 78 PART II: Naturalist Perspectives 98 5 Assertion: A Pragmatic Genealogy 100 6 Normative Attitudes 130 7 Normative Attitudes, Shared Intentionality, and Discursive Cognition 147 8 Two Pillars of Institutions: Constitutive Rules and Participation 186 PART III: Social-Pragmatic Perspectives 204 9 An I without a You? An Exercise in Normative Pragmatics 206 10 “I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said”: The Pragmatics of Retraction 232 11 Discursive Injustice and the Speech of Indigenous Communities 257 12 Slurring Speech and Social Norms 273 List of Contributors 284 Index 286 Robert,Brandom;,Vitaly,Kiryushchenko;,Hans,Bernhard,Schmid;,Jaroslav,Peregrin;,Ladislav,Koreň;,Wolfgang,Huemer;,Preston,Stovall;,Rebecca,Kukla;,Mihaela,Popa-Wyatt;,Leo,Townsend;,Jeremy,Wanderer;,linguistic,norms;,philosophy,of,language;,normativity;,Hegel;,representation;,agreement;,I-thou;,pragmatism;,naturalism;,inferentialism;,rule,following;,assertion;,intentions;,speech,acts;,pragmatics;,oppressive,speech;,hate,speech;,discursive,paternalism;,slurs;,discursive,norms Robert Brandom,Vitaly Kiryushchenko,Hans Bernhard Schmid,Jaroslav Peregrin,Ladislav Koreň,Wolfgang Huemer,Preston Stovall,Rebecca Kukla,Mihaela Popa-Wyatt,Leo Townsend,Jeremy Wanderer,linguistic norms,philosophy of language,normativity,Hegel,representation,agreement,I-thou,pragmatism,naturalism,inferentialism,rule following,assertion,intentions,speech acts,pragmatics,oppressive speech,hate speech,discursive paternalism,slurs,discursive norms "The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms-the norms governing our thought and talk-are profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure of social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social and institutional structures. The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. The first offers historical perspectives on discursive norms, including a chapter by Robert Brandom on the way Hegel transformed Kant's normativist approach to representation by adding both a social and a historicist dimension to it. Section II features four chapters that examine the sociality of normativity from within a broadly naturalistic framework. The third and final section focuses on linguistic phenomena such as online speech acts, oppressive speech, and assertions. The Social Institution of Discursive Norms will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.