Robert Brandom
Robert Brandom is a contemporary American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh. He works primarily in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. Brandom's work is heavily influenced by that of Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Rorty, Michael Dummett and John McDowell. He also draws heavily on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and of G. W. F. Hegel. He is most-known for an ongoing project to recast philosophy of language in an inferentialist mode (see Inferential role semantics); loosely, to carry out the Wittgensteinian task of explaining meaning--the contents of words and mental states--in terms of use. His influential 1994 book, Making it Explicit, laid out this project.
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