Robert Brandom

Robert Brandom
Born (1950-03-13) March 13, 1950 (age 74)
EducationYale University (BA, 1972)
Princeton University (PhD, 1977)
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
Pittsburgh School (analytic Hegelianism)[1][2]
Neopragmatism[3]
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh
ThesisPractice and Object (1977)
Doctoral advisorRichard Rorty
David Lewis
Doctoral studentsJohn McFarlane
Main interests
Pragmatism
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of mind
Philosophy of logic
History of philosophy
Notable ideas
Semantic inferentialism
Logical expressivism
Antirepresentationalism

Robert Boyce Brandom (born March 13, 1950)[4] is an American philosopher who teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. He works primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and philosophical logic, and his academic output manifests both systematic and historical interests in these topics. His work has presented "arguably the first fully systematic and technically rigorous attempt to explain the meaning of linguistic items in terms of their socially norm-governed use ("meaning as use", to cite the Wittgensteinian slogan), thereby also giving a non-representationalist account of the intentionality of thought and the rationality of action as well."[5]

Brandom is broadly considered to be part of the American pragmatist tradition in philosophy.[6][7] In 2003 he won the Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award.

  1. ^ Robert Brandom, A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology, Harvard University Press, 2019.
  2. ^ deVries, Willem A. "Hegel's Revival in Analytic Philosophy". In: The Oxford Handbook of Hegel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. pp. 743–766.
  3. ^ Pragmatism – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  4. ^ Robert Boyce Brandom - Curriculum Vitae
  5. ^ Reading Brandom: On Making It Explicit. Reviewed by James R. O'Shea, University College Dublin
  6. ^ Hookway, Christopher (16 August 2008). "Pragmatism". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  7. ^ McDermid, Douglas (15 December 2006). "Pragmatism". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved 9 December 2012.

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