对布兰顿推理语义学的哲学审视

A Study of Brandom's Inferential Semantics From Philosophical Perspective

传统的语义理论如指称论、观念论、使用论等,分别从指称、观念、使用等角度对意义问题进行了深入的探讨,它们各自含有或多或少合理的因素,但也带有或大或小的片面性。与以上探究进路不同,美国当代著名哲学家布兰顿以推理为切入点彰显了对意义问题的不同理解,一定程度上实现了意义问题研究的范式转换。值得深思的是,由于过分强调概念推论实践的中心地位,在某种程度上,也致使他无法真正地将逻辑的形式主义纳入其理论考量。

The traditional semantic theories such as the Referential Theory, the Ideational Theory and the Use Theory explored the meaning problem from points of view of reference, idea and use in depth, and each of which contained more or less reasonable factors but big or small one-sidedness. In contrast, Brandom, a famous philosopher of contemporary United States demonstrated the different understanding of the meaning problem from the perspec- tive of inference. Brandom＇s inferential approach, to a certain extent, achieved a paradigm shift of researches of the meaning problem. However, to some extent, because of too much emphasis on the center position of discursive practice of concepts, he could not actually in- corporate the logical formalism into his theoretical considerations.