'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons
Rebecca Kukla
Mark Lance
- Acknowledgments
- A Note to the Reader
1. Pragmatism, Pragmatics, and Discourse: Mapping the Terrain
- Varieties of Pragmatism
- Two Distinctions among Normative Statuses
- A Typology of Speech Acts
- More about Agent-Relativity and Agent-Neutrality
- Several Caveats
- Entitlement and Epistemic Responsibility
- Where We Go From Here
2. Observatives and the Pragmatics of Perception
- Observatives
- Observatives and Occasion Sentences
- Observing-That and the Declarative Fallacy
- The Ineliminability of the First-Person Voice
3. The Pragmatic Structure of Objectivity
- Observatives, Observation, and Answerability to the World
- Intersubjectivity
- Objectivity
4. Anticlimactic Interlude: Why Performatives Are Not That Important to Us
5. Prescriptives and the Metaphysics of Ought-Claims
- The Pragmatics of Prescriptives
- Four Ways of Telling Someone What to Do
- Two Alternative Accounts
- Reasons, Claims, and Addresses
- Coda: Categorical Imperatives
6. Vocatives, Acknowledgments, and the Pragmatics of Recognition
- Two Kinds of Recognitives
- Vocatives
- Acknowledgments
7. The Essential Second Person
- Concrete Habitation of the Space of Reasons
- Second-Person Speech
- Tellings, Holdings, and Transcendental Vocatives
- Speech as Communication and as Calling
8. “We called each other Yo”
- Interpellation and Induction into Normative Space
- Membership in a Discursive Community
- How Many Discursive Communities Are There?
- Sharing a World and Learning to See
- On the Equiprimordiality and Entanglement of ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’
- Fugue
- Appendix (with Greg Restall): Toward a Formal Pragmatics of Normative Statuses
- Index