Robert Brandom Quotes
Robert Brandom is an American analytic philosopher, distinguished professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the most influential contemporary defenders of inferentialist semantics and pragmatist analytic philosophy. Making It Explicit, his nearly thousand-page magnum opus, set out a comprehensive account of meaning, mind, and rationality grounded in the social practice of giving and asking for reasons, while Articulating Reasons offered a more accessible introduction to the same program. The quotes below are attributed to Robert Brandom, organized by topic.
Robert Brandom on Mind
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Attributed to Robert Brandom:
“Rationality is a social practice before it is an individual capacity.”
Robert Brandom on Politics
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Attributed to Robert Brandom:
“Hegel can be read as the great philosopher of the social practice of mutual recognition.”
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Attributed to Robert Brandom:
“Norms of language are not stamped on us from outside; we institute them in our concrete commerce with one another.”
Robert Brandom on Truth
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Attributed to Robert Brandom:
“To say is to commit oneself to defend; to assert is to enter the game of giving and asking for reasons.”
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Attributed to Robert Brandom:
“Meaning is conferred by inferential role; what something means is what follows from it and what follows to it.”