Action, Meaning, and Argument in Eric Weil's Logic of Philosophy: A Development of Pragmatist, Expressivist, and Inferentialist Themes

This volume investigates Eric Weil’s innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition with a focus on violence’s relationship to language and to discourse. Weil presents violence as the central philosophical problem. According to this reading, the western philosophical tradition commonly conceptualizes violence as an expression of error or as a consequence of the weakness of will. However, by doing so, it misses something essential about the role that vio...