Robert Brandom: Work in Progress
This page contains links to work in progress currently available for download, as well as some materials for for the 2006 Locke Lectures, the 2007 Woodbridge Lectures, and the 2011 Munich Hegel Lectures.
The main page for Bob's recent work is here.
Bob's main website is here.
  A Spirit of Trust: A Semantic Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology
Draft chapters available here.
  Current Work Available
  • "A Hegelian Model of Legal Concept Determination: The Normative Fine Structure of the Judges' Chain Novel" (MSWord)
  • "Sellars's Metalinguistic Expressive Nominalism" (MSWord)
  • "Sortals, Identity, and Modality: the Metaphysical Significance of the Modal Kant-Sellars Thesis" (MSWord)
  • "Intentionality and Language: A Normative, Pragmatist, Inferentialist Approach" (MSWord)
  • The 2011 Munich Hegel Lectures are available here.
  • "Modal Expressivism and Modal Realism: Together Again" (MSWord)
  • "From German Idealism to American Pragmatism--and Back" (MSWord)
  • "Hegel and Analytic Philosophy" (MSWord)
  • "Global Anti-Representationalism?" (MSWord)
  • "Towards Reconciling Two Heroes: Habermas and Hegel" (MSWord)
  • "Freedom Is a Matter of Authority and Responsibility," an interview by Tanja Pritzlaff (Bremen), European Journal of Political Philosophy (PDF)
  • "Metaphilosophical Reflections on the Idea of Metaphysics" (MSWord)
  • "Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism" (MSWord)
  • "Platforms, Patchworks, and Parking Garages: Wilson's Account of Conceptual Fine-Structure in Wandering Significance" (MSWord)
  • "How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science" (MSWord)
  • "An Arc of Thought: From Rorty's Eliminative Materialism to his Pragmatism" (MSWord)
  • "Untimely Review of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit" (MSWord)
  • "Reason, Genealogy, and the Heremeneutics of Magnanimity" (MSWord)
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  2011 Munich Hegel Lectures
Knowing and Representing: Reading (between the lines of) Hegel's Introduction
The 2011 Munich Hegel Lectures
The lectures were given 30 May - 1 June, 2011, at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.
Lecture One, "Conceptual Realism and the Semantic Possibility of Knowledge": Handout, Text
Lecture Two, "Representation and the Experience of Error: A Functionalist Approach to the Distinction between Appearance and Reality": Handout, Text
Lecture Three, "Following the Path of Despair to a Bacchanalian Revel: The Emergence of the Second, True, Object": Handout, Text
The audio for the lectures is available here via iTunes.
The lectures were followed by a presentation on 4 June, 2011, at the conference "Aspects of Reason: Justification and Explanation" at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.
"Some Post-Davidsonian Elements of Hegel's Theory of Agency": Handout, Text
  Woodbridge Lectures
Animating Ideas of Idealism
The 2007 Woodbridge Lectures
The lectures were originally given 12-14 November, 2007, at Columbia University.
Lecture One, "Norms, Selves, and Concepts": Handout, Text
Lecture Two, "Autonomy, Community, and Freedom": Handout, Text
Lecture Three, "History, Reason, and Reality": Handout, Text
Video of the lectures as given in Pittsburgh (together with audience discussion) is available here.
  Locke Lectures
Lecture transcripts and handouts are still available for download from the website.