Robert Brandom’s recent work aims to reconceive and pragmatist thought by on the one hand reconnecting it with its roots in the German Idealist tradition, and on the other hand synthesizing it with analytic philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. These lectures provide an overview of how he proposes to do that. A central figure in this reconceptualization of pragmatism and its history is the brilliant and notoriously difficult century American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars. Brandom explains how Sellars’s ideas can form the basis for contemporary analytic pragmatist rethinkings of the Kantian idea of categories, the significance of modal vocabulary, and the metaphysics of universals. The lectures are drawn from Brandom’s most recent books Perspectives on Pragmatism: Classical, Recent, and [Harvard University Press, 2011] and Contemporary From Empiricism to Expressivism: [Harvard University Press, forthcoming in 2014]. Brandom Reads Sellars
Robert Brandom’s recent work aims to reconceive and pragmatist thought by on the one hand reconnecting it with its roots in the German Idealist tradition, and on the other hand synthesizing it with analytic philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics. These lectures provide an overview of how he proposes to do that. A central figure in this reconceptualization of pragmatism and its history is the brilliant and notoriously difficult American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars. Brandom explains how Sellars’s ideas can form the basis for contemporary analytic pragmatist rethinkings of the Kantian idea of categories, the significance of modal vocabulary, and the metaphysics of universals. The lectures are drawn from Brandom’s most recent books Perspectives on Pragmatism: Classical, Recent, and Contemporary [Harvard University Press, 2011] and From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars [Harvard University Press, forthcoming in 2014]. century
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