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Robert Brandom, Distinguished Service Professor

Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Logic

PhD, Princeton, 1977

rbrandom@pitt.edu

Robert Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy, a fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His interests center on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of logic. He has published more than 50 articles on these and related areas. He is currently at work on a book on Hegel's Phenomenology He has been a Nelson Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan (1990), delivered the Hempel Lectures at Princeton (1994), and the Townsend Lectures at Berkeley (1997).

Select Publications

Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality, Harvard University Press, Fall 2002, ISBN#0-674-00903-7; 430 pp.

Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment, Harvard University Press (Cambridge) 1994. 741 pp. ISBN#0-674-54319-X 9 (cloth), #0-674-54330-0 (paper)

Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism, Harvard University Press, May 2000; 230 pp. (Paperback edition, August, 2001) ISBN#0-674-00158-3 (cloth), #0-674-00692-5 paper)

Rorty and His Critics, Edited, with an Introduction (includes "Vocabularies of Pragmatism") by Robert Brandom; Original essays by: Rorty, Habermas, Davidson, Putnam, Dennett, McDowell, Bouveresse, Brandom, Williams, Allen, Bilgrami, Conant, and Ramberg. Blackwell's Publishers, Oxford, July 2000.
ISBN#0-631-20981-6 (cloth), #0-631-20982-4 (paper)

"When Philosophy Paints its Grey on Grey: Irony and the Pragmatist Enlightenment" boundary2 volume 29 number 2 summer 2002, pp. 1-28.

"Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 63(3) pp. 587-609 N 01.

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