Robert Brandom: Analytic Pragmatist

by Bernd Prien (Editor)

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 its 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.

194 pages, Paperback

First published August 31, 2008

Reviews

[Adrian Woods · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of essays engaging Brandom's philosophy. In large part the essays try to be critical, I think they are unsuccessful in identifying any substantive problems in Brandom's work.