Robert Brandom

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Robert Brandom

Robert Boyce Brandom (born March 13, 1950 ) is an American philosopher . He is one of the most important contemporary philosophers and has made important contributions to the philosophy of language and the understanding of logic .

Life

Brandom studied mathematics, then philosophy and arts . In 1972 he received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy with summa cum laude from Yale University . He received his doctorate in 1977 in Princeton ( USA ) and has been Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh since 1981 . Robert B. Brandom is married to Barbara Wendeborn-Brandom, the couple have two sons.

He was a student of Richard Rorty and David Lewis . In addition, he is very much influenced by Wilfrid Sellars . Brandom became known in 1994 with his book Making it Explicit , which was published in German in 2000 under the title Expressive Vernunft . It follows the linguistic pragmatic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein . The central question is "how meaning arises from use". Brandom has presented a shorter presentation of the theory formulated in Making it Explicit on a good 800 pages in the book Articulating Reasons (German: Justification and Understanding ).

In 2000 Brandom became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Furthermore, in 2002 Brandom published the book Tales of the Mighty Dead, a collection of essays on the history of philosophy that he has written since the early 1980s. The book contains articles on Baruch Spinoza , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , Gottlob Frege , Martin Heidegger and Wilfrid Sellars . With this book, Brandom is pursuing the goal of placing his own theory of language and intentionality, formulated in Making it Explicit , in a tradition that he u. a. sees shaped by the above-mentioned philosophers and calls them " inferentialistic ".

The Locke lectures held and discussed at the University of Oxford in 2006 and at the Prague Congress Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism in 2007 and published in 2008 under the abbreviated title Between Saying and Doing . In 2019, after decades of work, his book on Hegel's phenomenology of the mind was published with the title A Spirit of Trust , which had already been widely discussed.

In 2015 he received the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation . He will research there for up to five years at the invitation of the Philosophy Chair at Leipzig University . In 2018 Brandom was elected to the British Academy .

Works

  • Robert Brandom, A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology , Harvard University Press, 2019.
  • Robert Brandom, Between Saying and Doing , Oxford UP, Oxford 2008. Review by S. Shieh (NDPR), P. Grönert (kritikon).
  • Robert Brandom, Tales of the Mighty Dead , Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass. 2002
  • Robert Brandom, Articulating Reasons , Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass. 2000,
  • Robert Brandom, Making it Explicit , Harvard UP, Cambridge, Mass. 1994

literature

  • Andrea Clausen: How Can Conceptual Content be Social and Normative, And, at the Same Time, be Objective? , ontos Verlag, Heusenstamm 2004.
  • Sebastian Knell : Propositional Content and Discursive Account Management, An Investigation to Justify the Language Dependency of Intentional States in Brandom , de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 2004.
  • Steven M. Levine: Sellars' Critical Direct Realism, in: International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15/1 (2007), 53-76.
  • Bernd Prien, David P. Schweikard (eds.): Robert Brandom: Analytic Pragmatist , Ontos Verlag 2008, ISBN 3938793775 . Review by B. Weiss (NDPR).
  • Christian Thein: Subject and Synthesis: a critical study of idealism and its reception by Adorno, Habermas and Brandom , Würzburg, Königshausen & Neumann 2013, ISBN 3-8260-5224-2 .
  • Jeremy Wanderer: Robert Brandom [critical introduction to Making It Explicit ], McGill-Queens University Press (US), Acumen Publishing (UK) 2008.
  • Bernhard Weiss: Reading Brandom: on making it explicit , London, Routledge 2010.

Web links

Text by Brandom
Secondary literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of members of the AAAS. Retrieved July 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Press release , idw-online.de, accessed on February 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Brandom, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brandom, Robert B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher, professor of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1950