Publisher's Synopsis
In this book, Andrea Clausen intends to reconcile Kripke's point according to which conceptual content has to be considered as being constituted by social, normative practice -- by a process of mutual assessments -- with the view that the content of empirical assertions has to be conceived as objective. She criticises approaches that explicate content-constitutive practice in non-normative terms, namely in terms of sanctioning behaviour (Haugeland, Pettit, Esfeld). She also rejects a pragmatist reading of Heidegger that proceeds from thoroughly normative but pre-conceptual practice. She develops and defends a particular reading of an approach that conceives normative, conceptually articulated practice -- giving and asking for reasons -- as primitive (Brandom, McDowell).
