伽达默尔和布兰顿论诠释

Gadamer and Brandom on Interpretation

在其著作《先哲旧事》中,布兰顿讨论了伽达默尔关于诠释的阐释学观念,力图表明,他自己的理解概念内容的推理主义进路能够解释伽达默尔阐释学的核心论题或为其奠基;他称之为"伽达默尔式的阐释学宗旨"。为了评价这一主张是否正确,可以分析布兰顿所讨论的三类哲学诠释,即从物诠释、从言诠释和传统诠释。布兰顿理论的"一般历史主义"与诠释学进路有直接的冲突。尽管布兰顿所命名的传统诠释(作为从物诠释的一种变形)确实很接近伽达默尔进路,设若布兰顿式的计分员采取这一诠释策略,他有可能成为伽达默尔式的阐释者,但只要采取了传统诠释,他就不可能再回到布兰顿所描述的计分实践。

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 the correctness of this claim,I analyze the three types of philosophical interpretations that Brandom discusses:de re,de dicto and de traditione,and argue that they commit him to an "ecumenical historicism"that is directly at odds with the hermeneutic approach. Although the variety of de re interpretation that Brandom denominates de traditione comes indeed very close to the Gadamerian approach,I conclude that if Brandomian scorekeepers were to adopt it,they could become Gadamerianhermeneuts,but once they did,they would not be able to go back to their scorekeeping practices as described by Brandom.