Blanchette on "Inferentialism, Content, and Frege" - June 10, 3-5pm (CET)

Dear All, The Philosophy Department of the Central European University, the Institute Vienna Circle and the Unit for Applied Philosophy of Science and Epistemology (of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Vienna) are jointly organizing a series of talks this term.

On Thursday, June 10, 3-5pm (CET)

Patricia Blanchette (University of Notre Dame) will speak about “Inferentialism, Content, and Frege” (abstract below).

(Further speakers will be: 17 June: Gaile Pohlhaus; Ruth Weintraub, 24 June: Marta Sznajder.) The meetings will be online via ZOOM: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/98767758229?pwd=ZkswaEh4TFNNSzkybDk4RmZOOXh3QT09 You can also log into our meetings through the Zoom application (rather than by clicking the link above), by using the following credentials: Meeting-ID: 987 6775 8229 Password: IVC-APSE

Abstract:

This talk discusses Robert Brandom's attribution of an "inferentialist" view to the early Frege. I hope that as a result of teasing apart those parts of Frege's view that correspond with Brandom's, and those that don't, we can gain a clearer understanding both of Frege's conception of content, and of the ways in which various parts of Brandom's inferentialism hang together.

On behalf of the organizers, Maria Kronfeldner Martin Kusch Iulian Toader