Keeping track of individuals: Brandom's analysis of Kripke's puzzle and the content of belief
- Author(s): Carlo Penco 1
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 University of Genoa, Italy
- Source: The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit , pp 163-185
- Publication Date October 2008
This paper gives attention to a special point in Brandom’s Making it Explicit. Brandom proposes in MIE a “Fregean” way out of Kripke’s puzzle about belief. In the first part, I analyze two main features of Brandom’s strategy, the definition of anaphoric chains as senses of proper names and the implausibility of the application of a disquotational principle to proper names. In the second part, I discuss (i) the problem of the stability of contents and (ii) the problem of sharing contents. I claim that Brandom’s strong holism leads to irresolvable difficulties with respect to the concept of conceptual content as it emerges from the discussion of Kripke’s puzzle.
- Affiliations: 1: University of Genoa, Italy
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