Volume 30, 2005
Daniel Laurier
Pages 189-214
Between Phenomenalism and Objectivism
An Examination of R. Brandom’s Account of the Objectivity of Discursive Deontic Statuses
Brandom (1994) claims to have succeeded in showing how certain kinds of social practices can institute objective deontic statuses and confer objective conceptual contents on certain performances. This paper proposes a reconstruction of how, on Brandom’s views, this is supposed to come about, and a critical examination of the explicit arguments offered in support for this claim.