Pragmatism and Idealism: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality

ISBN-13: 9780192870216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 144 str.

Distinguis Robert B. (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

Opis

In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty and Hegel.

O autorze

Robert Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has taught since 1976. He received his BA in philosophy and mathematics from Yale University in 1972. His 1977 PhD from Princeton University was supervised by Richard Rorty and David K. Lewis. Brandom is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Award from the Mellon Foundation and the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis from the Humboldt Stiftung. He has delivered the John Locke lectures at Oxford University, the Hempel lectures at Princeton, the Townsend and Howison lectures at Berkeley, the Aquinas lecture at Marquette, and the Brentano lectures in Vienna, among others.