Essays, written by thirteen of the most distinguished living philosophers, together with Rorty's substantial replies to each, and other new material by him, offer by far the most thorough and thoughtful discussion of the work of the thinker who has been called "the most interesting philosopher alive."
Essays, written by thirteen of the most distinguished living philosophers, together with Rorty's substantial replies to each, and other new material b...
Robert B. Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language--the very core of analytic philosophy. This new work provides an approachable introduction to the complex system that Making It Explicit mapped out. A tour of the earlier book's large ideas and relevant details, Articulating Reasons offers an easy entry into two of the main themes of Brandom's work: the idea that the semantic content of a sentence is determined by the...
Robert B. Brandom is one of the most original philosophers of our day, whose book Making It Explicit covered and extended a vast range of to...
A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most prominent American philosophers working today provides an entirely new way of looking at the development of Western philosophy from Descartes to the present.
Brandom begins by setting out a historical context and outlining a methodological rationale for his enterprise. Then, in chapters on Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Frege, Heidegger, and Sellars, he pursues the most fundamental philosophical issues concerning intentionality, and therefore...
A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most promine...
Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. He was, Richard Rorty writes, "as original a mind as C. S. Peirce, and it has taken almost as long for the importance of his ideas to be appreciated." This collection, coedited by Sellars's chief interpreter and intellectual heir, should do much to elucidate and clearly establish the significance of this difficult thinker's vision for contemporary philosophy.
The volume presents the most readable of Sellars's essays in a sequence that...
Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989) was, in the opinion of many, the most important American philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century. He wa...
What would something unlike us--a chimpanzee, say, or a computer--have to be able to do to qualify as a possible knower, like us? To answer this question at the very heart of our sense of ourselves, philosophers have long focused on intentionality and have looked to language as a key to this condition. Making It Explicit is an investigation into the nature of language--the social practices that distinguish us as rational, logical creatures--that revises the very terms of this inquiry. Where accounts of the relation between language and mind have traditionally rested on the concept...
What would something unlike us--a chimpanzee, say, or a computer--have to be able to do to qualify as a possible knower, like us? To answer this qu...
Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions and their use. Giving due weight both to what one has to do in order to count as saying various things and to what one needs to say in order to specify those doings, makes it possible to shed new light on the relations between semantics (the theory of the meanings of utterances and the contents of thoughts) and pragmatics (the theory of the functional relations among meaningful...
Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It inve...
Seit dem Erscheinen seines Meisterwerkes Expressive Vernunft gilt Robert B. Brandom als einer der wichtigsten Philosophen der Gegenwart. In Begrnden und Begreifen widmet er sich nun in konziser Form seinem wichtigsten Thema, nmlich der Klrung des Gebrauchs und Gehalts von Begriffen. Ausgehend von der These, da sich der Gehalt von Begriffen durch deren Rolle im Schlufolgern bestimmt, gelingt Brandom eine berraschende Klrung solch wichtiger philosophischer Probleme wie unter anderem des Problems der Normativitt, der Intentionalitt und Reprsentationalitt des Denkens und Sprechens oder der...
Seit dem Erscheinen seines Meisterwerkes Expressive Vernunft gilt Robert B. Brandom als einer der wichtigsten Philosophen der Gegenwart. In Begrnden u...
The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism--a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Sellars stood in the forefront of a recoil within analytic philosophy from the foundationalist assumptions of contemporary empiricists. From Empiricism to Expressivism is a far-reaching reinterpretation of Sellars from one of the philosopher's most brilliant intellectual heirs.
Unifying and extending Sellars's most important ideas, Robert Brandom constructs a theory of pragmatic...
The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism--a philosophical approach to knowledge...
