Question
This thinker’s approach to the philosophy of language has been described as “linguistic rationalism” for its prioritization of assertion. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this professor at the University of Pittsburgh who outlined his approach to analyzing rule-based language in the books Making it Explicit and Articulating Reasons.
ANSWER: Robert Brandom [or Robert Boyce Brandom]
[10h] The subtitle to Articulating Reasons calls it “An Introduction to” this semantic view. In Brandom’s version of this view, being propositionally contentful means playing the roles of both premise and conclusion, and making a claim means implicitly endorsing certain surmises other speakers will reach.
ANSWER: inferentialism [or semantic inferentialism or inferential role semantics; accept inferentialist; prompt on conceptual role semantics, functional role semantics, or procedural semantics]
[10e] Brandom’s historical work includes a 2011 book titled Perspectives on [this American philosophical school], which discusses Charles Sanders Peirce.
ANSWER: pragmatism [accept Perspectives on Pragmatism]
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Summary
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 04/19/2025 | Y | 7 | 14.29 | 100% | 29% | 14% |
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| Johns Hopkins | UC Berkeley B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Cornell A | LSE | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| North Carolina A | Maryland | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| NYU | Rutgers | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Northwestern | Ohio State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Chicago A | WUSTL B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Harvard | Waterloo A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |