The father, the son, and the daughter: Sellars, Brandom, and Millikan

Millikan, Ruth Garrett

doi:10.1075/pc.13.1.06mil

Article published In: The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit: On Robert B. Brandom
Edited by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
[Pragmatics & Cognition 13:1] 2005
► pp. 59–71

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The father, the son, and the daughter

Sellars, Brandom, and Millikan

Ruth Garrett Millikan | University of Conneticut

Published online: 8 August 2005

https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.13.1.06mil

The positions of Brandom and Millikan are compared with respect to their common origins in the works of Wilfrid Sellars and Wittgenstein. Millikan takes more seriously the “picturing” themes from Sellars and Wittgenstein. Brandom follows Sellars more closely in deriving the normativity of language from social practice, although there are also hints of a possible derivation from evolutionary theory in Sellars. An important claim common to Brandom and Millikan is that there are no representations without function or “attitude”.

Keywords: Conceptual role, normative, conceptualizing, pattern, convention, practice, cooperation, scientific realism, function, intentionality, isomorphism, mechanism

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