Vol. 39 No. 2 (2019): The Prismatic Shape of Trust 2. Authors and Problems
Articles

The Constitutive Role of Trust in Semantics

Giacomo Turbanti
Università di Pisa

Published 2019-12-17

Keywords

  • Inferentialism,
  • Semantic Trust,
  • Language Games,
  • Normative Pragmatics

How to Cite

The Constitutive Role of Trust in Semantics. (2019). Teoria. Rivista Di Filosofia, 39(2), 201-217. https://doi.org/10.4454/teoria.v39i2.78

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to characterize the semantic notion of trust, as it has been introduced by Robert Brandom. Traditionally, the concept of trust does not play any central role in semantics. This, I suggest, depends on the fact that the very social dimension plays a rather marginal role in the traditional representationalist theory of meaning. In Brandom’s normative inferentialism, instead, trust is essential to the constitution of the discursive communities, whose rules are taken to define contents.