@article {1198, title = {Expressive Completeness in Brandom{\textquoteright}s Making It Explicit}, journal = {Organon F}, volume = {21}, number = {3}, year = {2014}, pages = {327-337}, type = {State}, abstract = {In this paper, I focus on the notion of expressive completeness in Robert Brandom{\textquoteright}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{\textquoteright}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.}, keywords = {Expressive completeness, normative pragmatism, Robert Brandom, self-referentiality, theory of meaning}, url = {http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2014/3/327-337.pdf}, author = {Radek Ocel{\'a}k} }