Volume 53, 2018
Philosophy of Language
Hong Li
Pages 87-91
How Pragmatics could be Transcendental?
It is well known that pragmatics was traditionally attributed to empirical subject, but Karl-Otto Apel tries to argue the possibility of transcendental pragmatics, which is to focus on conditions of the possibility of knowledge in the context of the contemporary philosophy of language, to make a semiotic transformation of transcendental Kantian philosophy, to seek the normative justification and the transcendental foundation for the valid claim, and to provide another philosophical paradigm of integrating analytic philosophy and hermeneutics. Then how is it possible?