The Social Institution of Discursive Norms: Historical, Naturalistic, and Pragmatic Perspectives

by Leo Townsend (Editor), Preston Stovall (Editor), Hans Bernhard Schmid (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms—the norms governing our thought and talk—are profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure our social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social and institutional structures.

The chapters are divided into three thematic sections. The first offers historical perspectives on discursive norms, including a chapter by Robert Brandom on the way Hegel transformed Kant’s normativist approach to representation by adding both a social and a historicist dimension to it. Section II features four chapters that examine the sociality of normativity from within a broadly naturalistic framework. The third and final section focuses on the social dimension of linguistic phenomena such as online speech acts, oppressive speech, and assertions.

The Social Institution of Discursive Norms will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and social philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032012971
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/25/2023
Series:	Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Leo Townsend is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He works on collective intentionality, social epistemology, and philosophy of language, and has published papers on group speech and group silencing, the nature of trust, collective belief, group agency, and epistemic injustice.

Preston Stovall is a postdoctoral researcher in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Hradec Králové. He works on the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and themes in German idealism and American pragmatism.

Hans Bernhard Schmid is Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His research interests include social ontology, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Themes in the Study of Human Cognition as a Social Phenomenon

Preston Stovall and Leo Townsend

Part I. Historical Perspectives

Chapter 2. The Fine Structure of Autonomy and Recognition

Robert Brandom

Chapter 3. I, Thou, and We: Peirce and Brandom on the Objectivity of Norms

Vitaly Kiryushchenko

Chapter 4. Social Roles as Practical Reasons? Questioning Brandomian Pragmatism

Hans Bernhard Schmid

Part II. Naturalist Perspectives

Chapter 5. Assertion: A Pragmatic Genealogy

Ladislav Koreň

Chapter 6. Normative Attitudes

Jaroslav Peregrin

Chapter 7. Normative Attitudes, Shared Intentionality, and Discursive Cognition

Preston Stovall

Chapter 8. Two Pillars of Institutions: Constitutive Rules and Participation

Wolfgang Huemer

Part III. Social-Pragmatic Perspectives

Chapter 9. An I without a You? An Exercise in Normative Pragmatics

Jeremy Wanderer

Chapter 10. "I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said": The Pragmatics of Retraction

Quill Kukla and Dan Steinberg

Chapter 11. Discursive Injustice and the Speech of Indigenous Communities

Leo Townsend

Chapter 12. Slurring Speech and Social Norms

Mihaela Popa-Wyatt