- Preface
- Part I
- Toward a Normative Pragmatics
- Introduction
- From Intentional State to Normative Status
- From Norms Explicit in Rules to Norms Implicit in Practices
- From Normative Status to Normative Attitude
- From Assessment to the Social Institution of Norms
- From Intentional Interpretation to Original Intentionality
- Appendix: Wittgenstein’s Use of Regel
- Toward an Inferential Semantics
- Content and Representation
- The Priority of the Propositional
- Conceptual Classification and Inference
- Material Inference, Conceptual Content, and Expression
- Circumstances and Consequences of Application
- Conclusion
- Linguistic Practice and Discursive Commitment
- Intentional States and Linguistic Practices
- Deontic Status and Deontic Attitudes
- Asserting and Inferring
- Scorekeeping: Pragmatic Significance and Semantic Content
- Perception and Action: The Conferral of Empirical and Practical Conceptual Content
- Assertions as Knowledge Claims
- Reliability
- Observation Reports and Noninferential Authority
- Rational Agency
- Practical Reasoning: Inferences from Doxastic to Practical Commitments
- Intentions
- Toward a Normative Pragmatics
- Part II
- The Expressive Role of Traditional Semantic Vocabulary: ‘True’ and ‘Refers’
- From Inference to Truth, Reference, and Representation
- Truth in Classical Pragmatism
- From Pragmatism to Prosentences
- Reference and Anaphorically Indirect Descriptions
- The Function of Traditional Semantic Vocabulary Is Expressive, Not Explanatory
- Substitution: What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?
- Multivalued Logic and Material Inference
- Substitution, Sentential Embedding, and Semantic Roles
- Subsentential Expressions
- What Are Singular Terms?
- Why Are There Singular Terms?
- Objections and Replies
- Conclusion
- Appendix: From Substitutional Derivation of Categories to Functional Derivation of Categories
- Appendix: Sentence Use Conferring the Status of Singular Terms on Subsentential Expressions—An Application
- Anaphora: The Structure of Token Repeatables
- Frege’s Grundlagen Account of Picking Out Objects
- Definite Descriptions and Existential Commitments
- Substitution, Token Recurrence, and Anaphora
- Deixis and Anaphora
- Interpersonal Anaphora and Communication
- Appendix: Other Kinds of Anaphora—Paychecks, Donkeys, and Quantificational Antecedents
- Ascribing Propositional Attitudes: The Social Route from Reasoning to Representing
- Representation and De Re Ascription of Propositionally Contentful Commitments
- Interpretation, Communication, and De Re Ascriptions
- De Re Ascriptions and the Intentional Explanation of Action
- From Implicit Attribution to Explicit Ascription
- Epistemically Strong De Re Attitudes: Indexicals, Quasi-Indexicals, and Proper Names
- The Social-Perspectival Character of Conceptual Contents and the Objectivity of Conceptual Norms
- Appendix: The Construction and Recursive Interpretation of Iterated Ascriptions That Mix De Dicto and De Re
- Content Specifications
- Conclusion
- Two Concepts of Concepts
- Norms and Practices
- We Have Met the Norms, and They Are Ours
- The Expressive Role of Traditional Semantic Vocabulary: ‘True’ and ‘Refers’
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
Making It Explicit
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