TY - JOUR T1 - Expressive Completeness in Brandom’s Making It Explicit JF - Organon F Y1 - 2014 A1 - Radek Ocelák KW - Expressive completeness KW - normative pragmatism KW - Robert Brandom KW - self-referentiality KW - theory of meaning AB - In this paper, I focus on the notion of expressive completeness in Robert Brandom’s Making It Explicit. For Brandom as a normative pragmatist, a theory of meaning is expressively complete if it specifies a human practice that is sufficient to confer on expressions conceptual contents so rich that the very conferring practice can be described by means of these expressions. I put the notion of expressive completeness in contrast with the related, but non-identical notion of self-referentiality of a semantic theory. Further, I examine the position of the concept in Brandom’s philosophical project: I assess the justification Brandom provides for his claim of expressive completeness of the presented theory, and I outline the consequences he can draw for his overall project provided that expressive completeness is achieved. Whether it is actually achieved, remains however an open question. IS - 3 VL - 21 SP - 327-337 UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2014/3/327-337.pdf U2 - Articles U3 - 327337 TI - Expressive Completeness in Brandom’s Making It Explicit ER -