Brandom Reads Sellars
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Köp båda 2 för 960 krOne of the leading U.S. philosophers, Brandom develops his systematic views about language, knowledge, and the mind through a fascinating conversation with the work of Wilfrid Sellars (19121989), who influenced English-language philosophy as much as any 20th-century thinker. In Brandoms hands, the criticisms of empiricism Sellars developed are transformed into a set of powerfully coherent views Brandoms scrupulous, illuminating discussion of Sellarss search for a pragmatic and naturalistic alternative to empiricism should forever establish Sellarss lasting importance to analytic philosophy. This inspired interpretation of Sellars gradually transitions, chapter by chapter, into Brandoms thorough development of his own theory of pragmatic expressivism. As a masterwork of late analytic philosophy, this book must be studied as closely as Sellars by those interested in philosophy and linguistics. -- J. R. Shook * Choice * From Empiricism to Expressivism offers an original, critical reading of Sellars and a constructive extension of some of Sellarss most important ideas. As a contribution to the literature on Sellars, Robert Brandoms book has no competitor; there are excellent general introductions to Sellarss philosophical thought, but Brandoms work is on a different level. It is philosophically adventurous, a superb piece of deep exegesis, and a first rate work of philosophy. -- Michael Williams, Johns Hopkins University From Empiricism to Expressivism is a coherently developed and highly original interpretation of Sellarss philosophy, read in a way that simultaneously defends Brandoms own very widely discussed analytic pragmatism. One of the most important achievements of the book is to unify and extend crucial metalinguistic aspects of Sellarss work that were central to some of Sellarss most influential views about meaning, normativity, and modality, but key aspects of which received only scattered and uneven treatment in Sellarss own writings. This book represents the most sophisticated and penetrating interpretation of Sellarss philosophy available, past and present. -- James OShea, University College Dublin
Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. He delivered the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford and the Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University. Brandom is the author of many books, including Making It Explicit, Reason in Philosophy, and From Empiricism to Expressivism (all from Harvard).