IMPLIKACIJA KAO SREDIŠNJI POJAM INFERENCIJALIZMA / IMPLICATION AS THE CENTRAL CONCEPT OF INFERENTIALISM

Abstract

This paper is focused on the analysis of Brandom’s approach to implication and its importance for philosophy of inferentialism. The goal is to show that the implication is the central concept in the philosophy of inferentialism and that it is essential for understanding of inferentialism as an epistemic important position. For this purpose, the paper analyses Brandom’s turn towards material inference which allows the implicative content to expand in the way it takes into account the factual, material conditions and state of things. The paper wants to show that Brandom tries to reject the dogmas of formalism in that way and to turn towards practical discourse and language practices as the only framework where we can relevantly speak about the cognitive and epistemic problems in general.