Published: 2018-08-12

Searching for the Origins of Philosophical Thinking on the Basis of the Concepts of Robert Brandom and Michael Tomasello

Daniel Żuromski
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.318

Abstract

The main idea of the presented considerations is the combination of three ideas: firstly, the idea of philosophy as having a conceptual nature in a broad sense, and containing the autonomous field of inquiry, which are concepts, and which we will call philosophy as a conceptual activity. Secondly, the idea that the origin of the conceptuality or conceptual content is a social practice whose model is the idea of a game of giving and asking for reasons, i.e. Robert Brandom’s semantic inferentialism. Thirdly, the psychological concept of basic cognitive abilities, underlying the social practice, which generates the conceptual content – the game of giving and asking for reasons, i.e. Michael Tomasello’s hypothesis of shared intentionality, and his conception of thinking as a form of cooperation.

Keywords:

conceptual nature of philosophy, semantic inferentialism, pragmatism about conceptual content, shared intentionality, thinking as cooperation, evolutionary psychology

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Żuromski, D. (2018). Searching for the Origins of Philosophical Thinking on the Basis of the Concepts of Robert Brandom and Michael Tomasello. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (23), 57–70. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.318

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