%0 Journal Article %J Organon F %D 2014 %T Expressive Completeness in Brandom’s Making It Explicit %A Radek Ocelák %K Expressive completeness %K normative pragmatism %K Robert Brandom %K self-referentiality %K theory of meaning %X In this paper, I focus on the notion of expressive completeness in Robert Brandom’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’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. %B Organon F %V 21 %P 327-337 %G English %U http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2014/3/327-337.pdf %9 State %2 Articles %3 327337