Brandom on Normativity, Intentionality and Ethics

The following interview is with University of Pittsburgh professor of philosophy, Robert Brandom, on his 1994 book Making It Explicit. Here he discusses discursive scorekeeping, “normativity”, and Hegel's master-slave dialectic.

Brandom works primarily in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and philosophical logic, and his work manifests both systematic and historical interests in these topics. He advocates the view that the meaning of an expression is determined by the process of deriving the strict logical consequences of assumed premises.

Many of Brandom's published papers are available at his website: http://www.pitt.edu/~rbrandom/

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