A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself
animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one
of the most prominent American philosophers working today provides
an entirely new way of looking at the development of Western
philosophy from Descartes to the present.
Brandom begins by setting out a historical context and
outlining a methodological rationale for his enterprise. Then, in
chapters on Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Frege, Heidegger, and Sellars,
he pursues the most fundamental philosophical issues concerning
intentionality, and therefore mindedness itself, revealing an
otherwise invisible set of overlapping themes and explanatory
strategies. Variously functionalist, inferentialist, holist,
normative, and social pragmatist in character, the explanations of
intentionality offered by these philosophers, taken together, form
a distinctive tradition. The fresh perspective afforded by this
tradition enriches our understanding of the philosophical topics
being addressed, provides a new conceptual vantage point for
viewing our philosophical ancestors, and highlights central
features of the sort of rationality that consists in discerning a
philosophical tradition--and it does so by elaborating a novel,
concrete instance of just such an enterprise.
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