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106Meaning and Interpretation: Can Brandomian Scorekeepers be Gadamerian Hermeneuts?Philosophy Compass 3 (1): 17-29. 2007.In his book Tales of the Mighty Dead Brandom engages Gadamer’s hermeneutic conception of interpretation in order to show that his inferentialist approach to understanding conceptual content can explain and underwrite the main theses of Gadamer’s hermeneutics which he calls “the gadamerian hermeneutic platitudes”. In order to assess whether this claim is sound, I analyze the three types of philosophical interpretations that Brandom discusses: de re, de dicto and de traditione, and argue that they…Read more
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117Heidegger on meaning and referencePhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (1): 9-20. 2005.This paper is an attempt to criticize the reification of language present in Heideggers writings after the Kehre . The steps of the argument are as follows. First, it is argued that the specific features of Heideggers conception of language after the Kehre can be traced back to Heideggers conception of the ontological difference in Being and Time . The common element in both conceptions is the assumption that meaning determines reference (i.e. that the way entities are understood determines w…Read more
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2Democracia y deliberación públicaIn Rodolfo Arango Rivadeneira (ed.), Filosofía de la Democracia: Fundamentos Conceptuales, Ediciones Uniandes, Ceso. pp. 125--146. 2007.
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21The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic PhilosophyMIT Press. 1999.Cristina Lafont draws upon Hilary Putnam's work in particular to criticize the linguistic idealism and relativism of the German tradition, which she traces back to the assumption that meaning determines reference.
University of Frankfurt (Germany)
Alumnus, 1992
Evanston, Illinois, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Law |