Robert Brandom: Teaching and Research Materials
This page contains links to the websites for current and recent courses and for the 2006 Locke Lectures, as well as to materials for the 2007 Woodbridge Lectures, to interviews with Bob, and to work in progress currently available for download.
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  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, Lecture Text
Lecture Two, "Autonomy, Community, and Freedom": Handout, Lecture Text
Lecture Three, "History, Reason, and Reality": Handout, Lecture Text
  Locke Lectures
The website for the Locke Lectures has moved here. Lecture transcripts and handouts are still available for download from the website.
  Current Work Available
  • "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)
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  Interviews
  • Interview by Guido Seddone, Leipzig, 30 June, 2008 (video)
  Phil. 2421
Topics in the Philosophy of Language: Making It Explicit
The website for the seminar is here.
Important Notice (4 November): The seminar will meet on 6 November. It will not meet on 13 November.