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(2017) European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 9 (2).
On the pragmatic content of science and common sense
Roberto Gronda , Giacomo Turbanti
In our paper we aim to update and revise the pragmatist conception of the relationship between science and common sense. First of all, we introduce two technical notions (MI and SI), with which we identify the normative spaces of the manifest and the scientific image, and we highlight the differences between these two notions and their Sellarsian cognates. Secondly, within each normative space we investigate the connections between languages and practices: we ground linguistic contents on the normative relations that are established in the practices of the corresponding normative space. Finally, we rely on Brandom’s meaning-use analysis to provide a representation of the different ways in which MI and SI practices and languages may interact. Our pragmatist proposal is to trace back the ontological conflict that is usually believed to exist between scientific and common sense objects to the differences between scientific and common sense practices.
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DOI: 10.4000/ejpap.1068
Full citation:
Gronda, R. , Turbanti, G. (2017). On the pragmatic content of science and common sense. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 9 (2), pp. n/a.
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