Robert Brandom

Analytic Pragmatist

Bernd Prien, David P. Schweikard, Bernd Prien, David P. Schweikard

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9783110325331
• eBook ISBN: 9783110326246
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Analytic Philosophy

Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned philosophers in the analytic tradition today. This volume contains his programmatic essay 'Towards an Analytic Pragmatism', in which Brandom shows how analytic philosophy can broaden ist perspective so as to incorporate important insights of pragmatism.

In addition, this volume contains nine papers dealing critically with themes from Brandom's writings, ranging from his 1994 book Making it Explicit to Between Saying and Doing, last year's Locke Lectures. Finally, there are replies by Robert Brandom to these papers.

Table of contents

• PREFACE
• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
• TOWARDS AN ANALYTIC PRAGMATISM
• BRANDOM ON KNOWLEDGE ANDENTITLEMENT
• OF μ-MESONS AND ORANGESSCRUTINIZING BRANDOM’S CONCEPTOF OBSERVABILITY
• SUCCESSFUL ACTION AND TRUE BELIEFS
• ARE FUNDAMENTAL DISCURSIVE NORMSOBJECTIVE?
• REALIST AND IDEALISTINTERPRETATIONS OF BRANDOM’SACCOUNT OF OBJECTIVITY
• COMPARING BRANDOM’S CRITICALREADING AND HEGEL’S SYSTEMATICENTERPRISE
• BRANDOM AND FREGE
• BETWEEN NORMATIVE AND MODALVOCABULARYA FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH BRANDOM’SLOCKE LECTURES
• HOW TO KRIPKE BRANDOM’S NOTION OFNECESSITY
• APPENDIX
• REPLIES
• REPLY TO“BRANDOM ON KNOWLEDGE AND ENTITLEMENT”
• REPLY TO“OF MU-MESONS AND ORANGES”
• REPLY TO“SUCCESSFUL ACTION AND TRUE BELIEFS”
• REPLY TO“ARE FUNDAMENTAL DISCURSIVE NORMS OBJECTIVE?”
• REPLY TO“REALIST AND IDEALIST INTERPRETATIONS OFBRANDOM’S ACCOUNT OF OBJECTIVITY”
• REPLY TO“COMPARING BRANDOM’S CRITICAL READING ANDHEGEL’S SYSTEMATIC ENTERPRISE”
• REPLY TO“BRANDOM AND FREGE”
• REPLY TO“BETWEEN NORMATIVE AND MODAL VOCABULARY”
• REPLY TO“HOW TO KRIPKE BRANDOM’S NOTION OF NECESSITY”
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