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@rortyquotes.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 2:03 PM

I see Brandom’s persistence in using the terms “getting right,” “really is” and “making true” as tools which will fall into authoritarian hands and be used for reactionary purposes.
PasAA p.173
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Brandom

The choice is between dropping the notions of “answering” and “representing” (though not those of “of” and “about”) and keeping them. My argument for dropping them is that they preserve an image of the relation between people and non-people which, in these lectures, I have been calling “authoritarian” and denouncing. I see both Brandom’s identification of calling an assertion “true” with endorsing it and Davidson’s refusal to define “true” as tools for persuading us to abandon this authoritarian image. But I see Brandom’s persistence in using the terms “getting right,” “really is” and “making true” as tools which will fall into authoritarian hands and be used for reactionary purposes.
@rortyquotes.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 2:01 PM

In the eyes of both Brandom and McDowell, l am a sort of aging enfant terrible, making the appropriation of Sellars and Davidson unnecessarily difficult by recasting the views of each in unnecessarily counterintuitive ways.
PasAA p.168
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#Rorty
#Brandom

Brandom is, in this respect, to Davidson as McDowell is to Sellars. Each thinks that a distinguished precursor was unfortunately tempted to throw the baby out with the bath. Brandom wants to recuperate “representation” and McDowell wants to recuperate “perceptual experience.” It is natural, therefore, that both Brandom and McDowell have doubts about my own version of pragmatism—a version which delights in throwing out as much of the philosophical tradition as possible, and urges that philosophers perform their social function only when they change intuitions, as opposed to reconciling them. In the eyes of both Brandom and McDowell, l am a sort of aging enfant terrible, making the appropriation of Sellars and Davidson unnecessarily difficult by recasting the views of each in unnecessarily counterintuitive ways.
@thomasrenkert.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 7:05 AM

Mit Bezug auf Robert #Brandom beschreiben wir als Kernproblem von #LLMs im sozialen Diskurs deren prinzipielle Standpunktlosigkeit, die das Archiv als Simulation von Kanon "zuhanden macht": "LLMs liefern nicht zu wenig Begründung, sondern zu viel." [4/5]

@rortyquotes.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 2:02 PM

To say that philosophy’s task is to make human practices explicit rather than to legitimize them by reference to something beyond them is to say that there is no authority beyond utility for these purposes to which we can appeal.
PasAA p.165
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Brandom

Brandom puts this point by saying that philosophy’s job is to make our practices, linguistic and other, explicit, rather than to judge these practices in the light of norms which lie outside them. He takes Wittgenstein’s infinite-regress argument against the possibility of appealing to such outside norms as fundamental to his metaphilosophical position. “Pragmatic theories of norms are distinguished from platonist theories, in treating as fundamental norms implicit in practices rather than norms explicit in principles.” There is no way for human beings to get beyond their own practices except by dreaming up better practices, and no way to judge these new practices better except by reference to their various advantages for various human purposes. To say that philosophy’s task is to make human practices explicit rather than to legitimize them by reference to something beyond them is to say that there is no authority beyond utility for these purposes to which we can appeal.
@rortyquotes.bsky.socialSep 7, 2026, 2:02 PM

There is no way for human beings to get beyond their own practices except by dreaming up better practices, and no way to judge these new practices better except by reference to their various advantages for various human purposes.
PasAA p.165
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Brandom

Brandom puts this point by saying that philosophy’s job is to make our practices, linguistic and other, explicit, rather than to judge these practices in the light of norms which lie outside them. He takes Wittgenstein’s infinite-regress argument against the possibility of appealing to such outside norms as fundamental to his metaphilosophical position. “Pragmatic theories of norms are distinguished from platonist theories, in treating as fundamental norms implicit in practices rather than norms explicit in principles.” There is no way for human beings to get beyond their own practices except by dreaming up better practices, and no way to judge these new practices better except by reference to their various advantages for various human purposes. To say that philosophy’s task is to make human practices explicit rather than to legitimize them by reference to something beyond them is to say that there is no authority beyond utility for these purposes to which we can appeal.
@rortyquotes.bsky.socialSep 6, 2026, 2:01 PM

Philosophy’s job is to make our practices, linguistic and other, explicit, rather than to judge these practices in the light of norms which lie outside them.
PasAA p.165
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Brandom

Brandom puts this point by saying that philosophy’s job is to make our practices, linguistic and other, explicit, rather than to judge these practices in the light of norms which lie outside them. He takes Wittgenstein’s infinite-regress argument against the possibility of appealing to such outside norms as fundamental to his metaphilosophical position. “Pragmatic theories of norms are distinguished from platonist theories, in treating as fundamental norms implicit in practices rather than norms explicit in principles.” There is no way for human beings to get beyond their own practices except by dreaming up better practices, and no way to judge these new practices better except by reference to their various advantages for various human purposes. To say that philosophy’s task is to make human practices explicit rather than to legitimize them by reference to something beyond them is to say that there is no authority beyond utility for these purposes to which we can appeal.