The Social Institution of Discursive Norms

Leo Townsend is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He works on collective intentionality, social epistemology, and philosophy of language, and has published papers on group speech and group silencing, the nature of trust, collective belief, group agency, and epistemic injustice. Preston Stovall is a postdoctoral researcher in the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Hradec Krlov. He works on the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and themes in German idealism and American pragmatism. Hans Bernhard Schmid is Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His research interests include social ontology, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Themes in the Study of Human Cognition as a Social Phenomenon Preston Stovall and Leo Townsend Part I. Historical Perspectives Chapter 2. The Fine Structure of Autonomy and Recognition Robert Brandom Chapter 3. I, Thou, and We: Peirce and Brandom on the Objectivity of Norms Vitaly Kiryushchenko Chapter 4. Social Roles as Practical Reasons? Questioning Brandomian Pragmatism Hans Bernhard Schmid Part II. Naturalist Perspectives Chapter 5. Assertion: A Pragmatic Genealogy Ladislav Kore Chapter 6. Normative Attitudes Jaroslav Peregrin Chapter 7. Normative Attitudes, Shared Intentionality, and Discursive Cognition Preston Stovall Chapter 8. Two Pillars of Institutions: Constitutive Rules and Participation Wolfgang Huemer Part III. Social-Pragmatic Perspectives Chapter 9. An I without a You? An Exercise in Normative Pragmatics Jeremy Wanderer Chapter 10. "I Really Didnt Say Everything I Said": The Pragmatics of Retraction Quill Kukla and Dan Steinberg Chapter 11. Discursive Injustice and the Speech of Indigenous Communities Leo Townsend Chapter 12. Slurring Speech and Social Norms Mihaela Popa-Wyatt