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Dialogues, Reasons and Endorsement

  • Shahid RahmanEmail author
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Abstract

The main aim of the present paper is to show that, if we follow the dialogical insight that reasoning and meaning are constituted during interaction, and we develop this insight in a dialogical framework for Martin-Löf’s Constructive Type Theory, a conception of knowledge emerges that has important links with Robert Brandom’s (1994, 2000) inferential pragmatism. However, there are also some significant differences that are at center of the dialogical approach to meaning. The present paper does not discuss explicitly phenomenology, however, one might see our proposal as setting the basis for a further study linking phenomenology and the dialogical conception of meaning—the development of such a link is part of several ongoing researches.

Keywords

Dialogical logic Transcendental logic Truth Consequence Structural rules Particle rules Phenomenology Intentionality Play-level Strategy-level 
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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the Laboratory STL: UMR-CNRS 8163 and to Leone Gazziero (STL), Laurent Cesalli (Genève), and Claudio Majolino (STL), leaders of the ANR-Project SEMAINO, for fostering the research leading to the present study.

Many thanks to Christina Weiss for her superb editorial work. My thanks also to Zoe McConaughey (STL), Steephen Eckoubili (STL), Clément Lion (STL), Muhammad Iqbal (STL) and Mohammad Shafiei (U. Shahid Beheshti) for fruitful discussions, and to the reviewers who suggested important improvements.

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  1. 1.Université de Lille, Philosophie, CNRS-UMR: 8176Villeneuve d’AscqFrance

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