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

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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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: Themes in the Study of Human Cognition as a Social Phenomenon PART I: Historical Perspectives 2 The Fine Structure of Autonomy and Recognition: The Institution of Normative Statuses by Normative Attitudes 3 I, Thou, and We: Peirce and Brandom on the Objectivity of Norms 4 Social Roles as Practical Reasons? Questioning Brandomian Pragmatism PART II: Naturalist Perspectives 5 Assertion: A Pragmatic Genealogy 6 Normative Attitudes 7 Normative Attitudes, Shared Intentionality, and Discursive Cognition 8 Two Pillars of Institutions: Constitutive Rules and Participation PART III: Social-Pragmatic Perspectives 9 An I without a You? An Exercise in Normative Pragmatics 10 “I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said”: The Pragmatics of Retraction 11 Discursive Injustice and the Speech of Indigenous Communities 12 Slurring Speech and Social Norms List of Contributors Index