Inferentialism: why rules matter

Machine generated contents note: 1. Inferentialism: State of Play --
1.1. What is meaning? --
1.2. Inferentialism and logic --
1.3. Brandom\'s inferentialism --
1.4. `Normative\' inferentialism vs. `causal\' Inferentialism --
1.5. Is Inferentialism circular? --
1.6. Plan of the rest of the book --
1.7. Summary of Chapter 1 --
pt. I Language, Meaning, and Norms --
2. Words as Governed by Rules --
2.1. Ross\'s `Noit-cif tribe\' --
2.2. Tu-tu vs. ownership vs. fun --
2.3. Material inference --
2.4. Empirical vocabulary --
2.5. Inferences into and out of language? --
2.6. Spinning in the void? --
2.7. Is language dispensable? --
2.8. Summary of Chapter 2 --
3. Meanings as Inferential Roles --
3.1. Use theories of meaning --
3.2. Dispositions vs. proprieties --
3.3. Inferential potential and inferential significance of a sentence --
3.4. Inferential roles --
3.5. A toy language --
3.6. Which inferences determine meaning? --
3.7. Are inferential roles compositional? --
3.8. Are there inferential roles, really? --
3.9. Summary of Chapter 3 --
4. The Rules of Language --
4.1. Implicit rules? --
4.2. Following rules vs. bouncing off them --
4.3. Rule following as a behavioral pattern --
4.4. Normative attitudes --
4.5. Is meaning normative? --
4.6. Normativity and human practices --
4.7. Inside and outside of the rules of language --
4.8. Summary of Chapter 4 --
5. Our Language Games --
5.1. From meaning to linguistic practices --
5.2. Game-theoretical perspectives --
5.3. The builders\' game --
5.4. The space of reasons and the game of giving and asking for reasons --
5.5. The `embodiment\' of the game of giving and asking for reasons --
5.6. Meaning and truth --
5.7. Summary of Chapter 5 --
6. Rules and Evolution --
6.1. Rules and cooperation --
6.2. Why rules? --
6.3. Sellars on rules and pattern-governed behavior --
6.4. Integrative vs. standalone rules --
6.5. Virtual spaces again --
6.6. Evolution and language --
6.7. Summary of Chapter 6 --
pt. II Logic, Inference, and Reasoning --
7. Inference in logic --
7.1. A disambiguation and first steps to explication --
7.2. Going substructure! --
7.3. Inference vs. consequence --
7.4. What is consequence? --
7.5. Bridging the gap --
7.6. Omega rule --
7.7. What makes inferences reliable? --
7.8. Summary of Chapter 7 --
8. Logical Constants --
8.1. Tonk --
8.2. `Reasonable\' and `unreasonable\' inferential patterns --
8.3. Inference and truth-valuations --
8.4. Inference structures and semantic systems --
8.5. Inferentialism and classical logic --
8.6. Varieties of inference --
8.7. Structured systems of sentences --
8.8. Summary of Chapter 8 --
9. Logic as Making Inference Explicit --
9.1. Inferentially native operators --
9.2. Anti-deductor? --
9.3. Multi-conclusion inference? --
9.4. Necessity --
9.5. Incompatibility --
9.6. Logical operators as structural markers and substructural logics --
9.7. Summary of Chapter 9 --
10. Rules of Logic --
10.1. Substantiation of logical rules --
10.2. How do we know that the rules of logic hold? --
10.3. What is MP? --
10.4. The dilemma of triviality and contingency --
10.5. To accept MP is to have implication --
10.6. What is it we study when we study logical rules? --
10.7. Summary of Chapter 10 --
11. Logic and Reasoning --
11.1. Logic and `belief management\' --
11.2. Do the rules of logic tell us how to reason? --
11.3. The social and normative nature of belief --
11.4. Logical laws as laws of demonstration --
11.5. Reasoning as inner argumentation --
11.6. Laws of logic as constitutive --
11.7. Truth once more --
11.8. Summary of Chapter 11.