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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 744-763, April 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
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O inferencialismo semântico de Robert Brandom

Inquietude
Este artigo pretende introduzir a tese do inferencialismo semântico conforme desenvolvida pelo filósofo estadunidense Robert Brandom. Esta introdução será levada a cabo segundo duas frentes: primeiro, por meio da narrativa histórica concatenada por ...
Henri Marcel de Oliveira São Paulo
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From Speech Acts to Semantics

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2014
Frege introduced the notion of pragmatic force as what distinguishes statements from questions. This distinction was elaborated by Wittgenstein in his later works, and systematised as an account of different kinds of speech acts in formal dialogue theory
Mackenzie Jim
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Reflective Equilibrium and Normative Reconstruction: Recasting the Phenomenological Deficit of Critical Theory

Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2014
In this paper, which reflects an ongoing interdisciplinary research in Cognitive and Social Sciences, I recast the normative claims of a political constructivism in reflective equilibrium (Rawls) and of a formal, pragmatic reconstruction (Habermas) as ...
Nythamar H. F. de Oliveira
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The Pro‐Office Mindset. Anticorruption Beyond Legal Instruments

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
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McDowell and Sellars on Objective Purport

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 313-332, March 2026.
Abstract John McDowell has criticized Wilfrid Sellars on several occasions and over a number of years for his ‘non‐relational’ account of intentionality. This account is, according to McDowell, at least partly responsible for a ‘blind spot’ in Sellars's thinking: Sellars, allegedly, fails to see how objects or states of affairs in the external world ...
Stefan Brandt
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Prospects for a Stereoscopic Vision of our Thinking Nature: On Sellars, Brandom, and Millikan

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012
In this article I consider how the very different but equally Sellars-inspired views of Robert Brandom and Ruth Millikan serve to highlight both the deep difficulties and the prospects for a solution to what is arguably the most central problem raised by
James R. O’Shea
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Amphibian Habits: Freedom, Death, and History in Hegel's Account Of Second Nature

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 115-132, March 2026.
Abstract Hegel's concept of habit is key to his account of social freedom. But it also appears preclude free reflection on social norms. Recent readers have either minimized this problem or concluded from it that social freedom necessarily implies new forms of unfreedom. This paper aims to avoid the latter conclusion while taking seriously its critical
Eskil Elling
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Model‐Based Semantics: Doing Without Meaning Constitution

Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 1-2, Page 103-118, January 2026.
Abstract This paper introduces a model‐based account of meaning, arguing that meaning properties reside in models rather than in the external world. Building on this view, it explores how such an instrumentalist framework can engage critically with various concerns raised by Wittgenstein, Quine, and Kripke[nstein]—each of whom voiced scepticism toward ...
Pietro Salis
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La agencia intencional no humana a la luz de razones: una crítica a Robert Brandom

Crítica
El artículo discute la noción de agencia intencional propuesta por Robert Brandom en su obra Making It Explicit (1994). Se trata de una noción diferencialista, pues solamente las criaturas lingüísticas capaces de producir y comprender razones se ...
Andrés Crelier
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