Recent Lecture Series and Collections
- Vocabularies of Reason The Samuel Pufendorf Lectures, Lund University, Sweden (2025)
- Commitments and Concepts Riyadh-MANA Lectures Winter 2022
- Stirrings of Analytic Pragmatism: Early Writings
- Reasons: Three Essays on their Logic, Pragmatics, and Semantics
- Brentano Lectures (Vienna 2019) Recollection and Recognition: Semantic and Practical Dimensions of Hegel’s Phenomenology
- Dewey Lectures (Shanghai 2018) Inferentialism, Normative Pragmatism, and Metalinguistic Expressivism
- Nordic Pragmatism Lectures (Helsinki 2014) Analytic Pragmatism, Expressivism, and Modality
- Aquinas Lecture (Marquette 2019) Heroism and Magnanimity: The Postmodern Form of Self-Conscious Agency
- Howison Lecture (Berkeley 2013) “Reason, Genealogy, and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity”
- FAGI-Humboldt Lectures (Leipzig 2015-2019) “A Pragmatist Semantic Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology: 18 Lectures from A Spirit of Trust”
- Wiedererinnerter Idealismus English version (2015)
- From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars (2015)
- Woodbridge Lectures (Columbia 2008) Animating Ideas of Idealism: A Semantic Sonata in Kant and Hegel
- Three Essays on the Metaphysics of Objects and Properties
- Panoramas of Mind and Meaning
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Essays
- “A Tune Beyond Us, Yet Ourselves: Reasons and Conceptual Realism” (2024)
- “On the Structure of Reasons: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Logic”
- “From Logical Expressivism to Expressivist Logics”
- “The Pragmatist Roots and Some Expressivist Extensions of The Dialogical Roots of Deduction”
- “From German Idealism to American Pragmatism–and Back”
- “Intentionality and Language: A Normative, Pragmatist, Inferentialist Approach”
- “Some Strands of Wittgenstein’s Normative Pragmatism, and Some Strains of his Semantic Nihilism”
- “Rorty on Vocabularies,” and “Remembering Rorty” from Revisiting Rorty
- “How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science”
- “On the Way to a Pragmatist Theory of the Categories”
- “Georg Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit–an Untimely Review”
- “Global Anti-Representationalism?”
- “Reason, Expression, and Perspective: Three Leibnizian Master-Ideas, Then and Now”
- “Vernunft, Ausdruck, und Perspektiv: Drei Leitideen von Leibniz: damals und heute”
- “Towards Reconciling Two Heroes: Habermas and Hegel”
- “Some Hegelian Ideas of Note for Contemporary Analytic Philosophy”
- “The Pragmatist Enlightenment (and its Problematic Semantics)”
- “A Hegelian Model of Legal Concept Determination: The Normative Fine Structure of the Judges’ Chain Novel”
- “An Arc of Thought: From Rorty’s Eliminative Materialism to his Pragmatism”
- “Some Post-Davidsonian Elements of Hegel’s Theory of Agency”
- “Critical Notice of Blind and Worried or The Sorter Resorted”
- “Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism”
- “Pre-Hegelian Stages in the Metaphysics of Normativity” (‘Lost’ chapter of A Spirit of Trust)
- “Hegel and Analytic Philosophy”
- “Facts, Norms, and Normative Facts: A Reply to Habermas”
- “What is Philosophy?”
- “Modal Expressivism and Modal Realism: Together Again”
- “Sellars’s Metalinguistic Expressivist Nominalism”
- “Sortals, Identity, and Modality: The Metaphysical Significance of the Modal Kant-Sellars Thesis”
- “The Centrality of Sellars’s Two-Ply Account of Observation to the Arguments of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”
- “Categories and Noumena: Two Axes of Sellars’s Thought”
- “Truth and Assertibility”
- “What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?”
- “What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?” Handout
- “Conceptual Content and Discursive Practice”
- “Understanding the Object/Property Structure in Terms of Negation: An Introduction to Hegelian Logic and Metaphysics”
- “Asserting”
- “The Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution”
- “Heidegger’s Categories in Being and Time”
- “Dasein, the Being that Thematizes”
- “Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Sellars and Kant”
- “Inferentialism and Some of Its Challenges”
- “Frege’s Technical Concepts: Some Recent Developments”
- “A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing”
- “Reference Explained Away”
- “Fighting Skepticism with Skepticism”
- “Metaphilosophical Reflections on the Idea of Metaphysics”
- “Al-Mukhatabat Issue on Brandom (Janvier 2014)”
- “Artificial Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism”
- “Holism and Idealism in Hegel’s Phenomenology”
- “Sketch of a Program for a Critical Reading of Hegel: Comparing Empirical and Logical Concepts”
- “Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel’s Idealism: Negotiation and Administration in Hegel’s Account of the Structure and Content of Conceptual Norms”
- “Pragmatism, Phenomenalism, and Truth Talk”
- “Hermeneutic Practices and Theories of Meaning”
- “Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars’s Arguments against Empiricism”
- “The Significance of Complex Numbers for Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics”
- “Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation”
- “Explanatory vs Expressive Deflationism about Truth”
- “Extending the Project of Analysis”
- “Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality”
- “Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic”
- “Pragmatics and Pragmatisms”
- “Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthesizing Naturalism and Historicism”
- “What Do Expressions of Preference Express?”
- “Adequacy and the Individuation of Ideas in Spinoza’s Ethics”
- “Unsuccessful Semantics”
- “Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning”
- “The Centrality of Sellars’s Two-Ply Account of Observation”
- “No Experience Necessary”
- “Noninferential Knowledge, Perceptual Experience, and Secondary Qualities: Placing McDowell’s Empiricism”
- “Perception and Rational Constraint”
- “Knowledge and the Social Articulation of the Space of Reasons”
- “Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic”
- “Leibniz and Degrees of Perception”
- “Platforms, Patchworks, and Parking Garages: Wilson’s Account of Conceptual Fine-Structure in Wandering Significance”
- “A Semantic Paradox of Material Implication”
- “A Binary Sheffer Operator Which Does the Work of Quantifiers and Sentential Connectives”
- “Singular Terms and Sentential Sign Designs”
- “Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise”
- “Three Problems with the Empiricist Conception of Concepts”
- “Why Truth is Not Important in Philosophy”
- “Philosophy and the Expressive Freedom of Thought”
- “Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism”
- “Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality”
- “When Philosophy Paints its Blue on Gray: Irony and the Pragmatist Enlightenment”
- “Reasoning and Representing”
- “Introduction to Articulating Reasons”
- “Expressing and Attributing Beliefs”
- “The Social Anatomy of Inference”
- “From a Critique of Cognitive Internalism to a Conception of Objective Spirit: Reflections on Descombes’s Anthropological Holism”
- “Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning, and Rationality”
- “Freedom and Constraint by Norms”
- “Points of View and Practical Reasoning”
- “Response to Pippin, Macbeth, and Haugeland comments on Tales of the Mighty Dead”
- “Review of Arthur Collins The Nature of Mental Things” (1990)
- “Overcoming a Dualism of Concepts and Causes: A Unifying Thread in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”
- “Inference, Expression, and Induction: Sellarsian Themes”
Historical Lagniappe
