Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0210225

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0210225

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Idealism, Pragmatism, and the Historical Norms of Rationality. This project engages critically with the remarkable "normative pragmatics" of Robert Brandom, essentially the first analytic philosopher in a century to defend Hegel's "logic" from a modern logical perspective. It develops Brandom's suggested "inferentialist" interpretation of Hegel, but shows how a presupposition distorts both Brandom's reading of Hegel and his substantive account of the norms of reason. A corrective is developed on the basis of the later work of Brandom's mentor, Wilfrid Sellars. The corrected account shows how the norms of thought need not be eternal to be rational, but rather, are rational because of the way they are historical.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 31-01-2002

End Date: 22-12-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $145,133.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | Logic | History Of Philosophy And History Of Ideas | Epistemology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Other

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Epistemology | History Of Philosophy And History Of Ideas | History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | Logic | Other

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