1st Edition
Normative Species How Naturalized Inferentialism Explains Us
Introduction
1. Now I can go on!
2. Creature of rules
3. Preliminaries I: Rules and other human gear
4. Preliminaries II: Rules as part of nature
5. Preliminaries III: Kinds of rules
6. Normative attitudes
7. Rules in the natural world
8. The natural history of correctness
9. Systems of rules and institutions
10. Behavioral patterns
11. Practices
12. The space of meaningfulness
13. Logic
14. Cooperation and morals
15. Freedom
16. The world
17. Conclusion: We have become a normative species
Biography
Jaroslav Peregrin is a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Hradec Králové, Czechia, and the research professor at the Department of Logic of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Doing Worlds with Words (1995), Meaning and Structure (2001), Inferentialism (2014), Reflective Equilibrium and the Principles of Logical Analysis (together with V. Svoboda, 2017) and Philosophy of Logical Systems (2020). His current research focuses on logical and philosophical aspects of inferentialism and on more general questions of normativity.
