Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Franz Berto, Bestimmte Negation (Or: What Is Hegel’s Dialectic?)
I think Hegel’s dialectic is, in Brandomian fashion, a very inferentialist theory of concepts. There’s conspicuous textual evidence that the majority of theoretical claims in the Phenomenology, the Science of Logic, the Encyclopaedia, are about conceptual connections. Conceptual contents are individuated by the connections with the concepts they entail and which entail them. Since theoretical as well as ordinary language expressions can be…