Robert Boyce Brandom (born March 13, 1950) is an American philosopher who teaches at the University of Pittsburgh. He works primarily in philosophy of...
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can be taken. It is also associated with P. F. Strawson, John Searle, Robert Brandom, and others. The inferentialist theory of meaning, the view that the...
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responses from many other well-respected figures in the field. In Robert Brandom's anthology Rorty and His Critics, for example, Rorty's philosophy is...
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contemporary analytic philosophy has been taken up by his student Robert Brandom. Brandom's work has transformed Sellars' project to introducing a Hegelian...
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philosophy departments in the U.S. Among his prominent students were Robert Brandom, L. A. Paul, J. David Velleman, Peter Railton, Phillip Bricker, Cian...
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socialist candidate Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party of America. Robert Brandom, his junior colleague at Pittsburgh, named Sellars and Willard Van Orman...
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natural and genetic evolution, but as a social phenomenon. As philosopher Robert Brandom explains: Hegel's discussion of the dialectic of the Master and Slave...
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Thomas Nagel Robert Nozick Hilary Putnam W. V. O. Quine John Rawls Notre Dame Robert Audi Peter van Inwagen Pittsburgh School Robert Brandom Patricia Churchland...
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influential of the late 20th century pragmatists along with Hilary Putnam and Robert Brandom. Contemporary pragmatism may be broadly divided into a strict analytic...
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of truth called prosententialism, which has since been defended by Robert Brandom. Prosententialism asserts that there are prosentences which stand in...
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methodological pragmatism and pragmatic idealism), Jürgen Habermas, Susan Haack, Robert Brandom, and Cornel West. Neopragmatists, particularly Rorty and Putnam, draw...
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that such supplements are not necessary to obtain a correct argument. Robert Brandom adopted Sellars' view, arguing that everyday (practical) reasoning is...
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Thomas Nagel Robert Nozick Hilary Putnam W. V. O. Quine John Rawls Notre Dame Robert Audi Peter van Inwagen Pittsburgh School Robert Brandom Patricia Churchland...
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of responsibility in any case. Leading libertarian philosophers such as Robert Kane have rejected Dennett's model, specifically that random chance is directly...
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what is sometimes called the Pittsburgh School, whose members include Robert Brandom, John McDowell, and John Haugeland. Also among the developments that...
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ways by his Pittsburgh colleague Robert Brandom (though McDowell has stated strong disagreement with some of Brandom's readings and appropriations of his...
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Thomas Nagel Robert Nozick Hilary Putnam W. V. O. Quine John Rawls Notre Dame Robert Audi Peter van Inwagen Pittsburgh School Robert Brandom Patricia Churchland...
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Glymour, and Richard Scheines, Causation, Prediction, and Search, 1993 Robert Brandom, Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism, 2000 Gottlob...
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reductionism limits our understanding of complex systems. In particular, ecologist Robert Ulanowicz says that science must develop techniques to study ways in which...
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Sellars. Contemporary proponents of semantic inferentialism include Robert Brandom, Gilbert Harman, Paul Horwich, Ned Block, and Luca Incurvati. Jerry...
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analytical philosophy." In his review, in The Times Literary Supplement, Robert Brandom called it "imaginative, original and ambitious". According to The European...
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Margaret Boden Paul Boghossian Emil du Bois-Reymond Hans-Werner Bothe Robert Brandom C. D. Broad Berit Brogaard David H. M. Brooks Thomas Brown Jerome Bruner...
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Hegel's account of absolute knowing. Two philosophers, John McDowell and Robert Brandom (sometimes referred to as the "Pittsburgh Hegelians"), constitute, per...
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Thomas Nagel Robert Nozick Hilary Putnam W. V. O. Quine John Rawls Notre Dame Robert Audi Peter van Inwagen Pittsburgh School Robert Brandom Patricia Churchland...
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existence) could be arrived at through intuition and reasoning alone. Similarly, Robert Boyle, a prominent advocate of the experimental method, held that we also...
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Thomas Nagel Robert Nozick Hilary Putnam W. V. O. Quine John Rawls Notre Dame Robert Audi Peter van Inwagen Pittsburgh School Robert Brandom Patricia Churchland...
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the first substantial use of philosophical "zombie" terminology may be Robert Kirk's 1974 "Zombies vs. Materialists". After the publication of Chalmers's...
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different kinds of specialised rationalisms are identified. For example, Robert Brandom has appropriated the terms "rationalist expressivism" and "rationalist...
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of redirect targets The Skeptic's Dictionary – 2003 essay collection by Robert Todd Carroll Skeptics in the Pub – Informal social event for skeptics since...
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Thomas Nagel Robert Nozick Hilary Putnam W. V. O. Quine John Rawls Notre Dame Robert Audi Peter van Inwagen Pittsburgh School Robert Brandom Patricia Churchland...
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