Bob Brandom

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at University of Pittsburgh

Possible world semantics and logic using inconsistent and incomplete possible worlds.

During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized the anti-authoritarian credentials of his pragmatism. He came to see pragmatism as the fighting faith of a second phase of the Enlightenment. The first stage, as Rorty construed it, concerns our emancipation from nonhuman authority in practical matters: issues of what we ought to do and how thing...

During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized the anti-authoritarian credentials of his pragmatism. He came to see pragmatism as the fighting faith of a second phase of the Enlightenment. The first stage, as Rorty construed it, concerns our emancipation from nonhuman authority in practical matters: issues of what we ought to do and how thing...

During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized the anti-authoritarian credentials of his pragmatism. He came to see pragmatism as the fighting faith of a second phase of the Enlightenment. The first stage, as Rorty construed it, concerns our emancipation from nonhuman authority in practical matters: issues of what we ought to do and how thing...

In this conversation, American philosopher Robert Brandom talks about the historical background of his inferentialism, reconstructing the influence of his teachers Wilfrid Sellars and Richard Rorty.

In this broad interview Robert Brandom talks about many themes concerning his work and about his career and education. Brandom reconstructs the main debts that he owes to colleagues and teachers, especially Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Rorty, and David Lewis, and talks about the projects he’s currently working on. He also talks about contemporary and c...

Some Hegelian Ideas of Note for Contemporary Analytic Philosophy - Volume 35 Issue 1 - Robert Brandom

This chapter presents a battery of concepts, distinctions, terminology, and questions that are common currency among philosophers of mind and language who think about intentionality. It sketches a systematic, interlocking set of commitments regarding the relations among these concepts and distinctions, which underwrites a distinctive set of answers...

Habermas é o principal teórico contemporâneo do Geist hegeliano, aquele que melhor soube nos explicar a sua rica estrutura, aquele que encontrou o melhor idioma para tornar explícitos os compromissos que estão implícitos no fato de sermos criaturas discursivas normativas. Mas por que, então, não preferir a versão do próprio Hegel para essas ideias?...

Este artigo analisa importantes elementos na recepção da filosofia de Hegel na atualidade. Com a finalidade de alcançar tal meta discute-se como a filosofia analítica acolhe a filosofia de Hegel. Para tanto se reconstrói a recepção da filosofia analítica em face de Hegel, notadamente a partir daqueles autores que foram centrais neste movimento de r...

This book aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions and their use. Giving due weight both to what one has to do in order to count as saying various things and to what one needs to say in order to specif...

This chapter places the arguments against empiricism presented in the first half of 'Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind' in the larger context opened up by laying them alongside the further battery of arguments Sellars aimed at the empiricist treatment of modality. The focus is on Sellars's pragmatist insistence on looking at what one must be ab...

L'A. analyse et critique diverses conceptions " pragmatistes " de la verite, inspirees par les theses de James et de Dewey, qui trouvent leur source dans des arguments semantiques sur le fonctionnement du terme " vrai " : en particulier la conception " pro-phrastique " qui fait de la verite un predicat redondant. Ces arguments appuient le phenomena...

This article reconstructs Hegel’s notion of experience and self-consciousness. It is argued that at the center of Hegel’s phenomenology of consciousness is the notion that experience is shaped by identification and sacrifice. Experience is the process of self-constitution and self-transformation of a self-conscious being that risks its own being. T...

Kant's innovative normative characterization of what one is doing in judging is appealed to as the basis of a story about how he moves from an inferential to a representational characterization of the contents of judgment. His normative notion of freedom and his demarcation of the normative in terms of autonomy are connected to his account of the s...

This paper could equally well have been titled ‘Some Idealist Themes in Hegel’s Pragmatism’. Both idealism and pragmatism are capacious concepts, encompassing many distinguishable theses. I will focus on one pragmatist thesis and one idealist thesis (though we will come within sight of some others). The pragmatist thesis (what I will call ‘the sema...

boundary 2 29.2 (2002) 1-28 Classical American pragmatism can be viewed as a minor, parochial philosophical movement that was theoretically derivative and practically and politically inconsequential. From this point of view—roughly that of Bertrand Russell and Martin Heidegger (Mandarins speaking for two quite different philosophical cultures)—it i...

RÉSUMÉ Cet article examine la relation entre deux thèses de Hegel : une thèse pragmatiste et une thèse idéaliste. La thèse pragmatiste est que l'usage des concepts en détermine le contenu, ou autrement dit, que les concepts n'ont pas d'autre contenu que celui qui leur est conféré par l'usage. La thèse idéaliste est que la structure et l'unité du co...

Robert B. Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analytic philosophy. This new work provides an approachable introduction to the complex system that Making It Explicit mapped out....

Mesurant le developpement de la theorie de la connaissance en ce qui concerne la fiabilite des processus de formation de la croyance, l'A. propose un apercu fondamental sur les epistemologies fiabilistes, attribuant le statut de connaissance vraie a la croyance vraie non justifiee. Soulevant la question d'un recentrement de l'epistemologie a partir...

REVIEW

Today we find ourselves at the outset of a golden age in the interpretation of Frege’s philosophical writings. Judged by the number of articles, books, and seminars addressing his thought, interest in Frege is at an all-time high. More importantly, as Frege has come out of the shadow of Russell and Wittgenstein into the full light of critical atten...

The paper discusses the relationship between one pragmatist the- sis and one idealist thesis in Hegel's thought. The pragmatist thesis is that the use of concepts determines their content, that is, that concepts can have no content apart from that conferred on them by their use. The idealist thesis is that the struc- ture and unity of the concept i...

Traducción de: Articulating Reasons. An Introduction to Inferentialism

Traducción de: Making It Explicit Investigación sobre la naturaleza del lenguaje que analiza la intencionalidad, centrándose en la inferencia y ciertos tipos de juicios implícitos, que se vuelven explícitos en el lenguaje. Este es el primer intento de elaborar una teoría que aclare los significados lingüísticos desde el criterio de uso.