Video of Bob's Recent Pitt Graduate Seminars
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2025 Graduate Seminar “Frege in Context.” Video of all 14 sessions.
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2024 Graduate Seminar “Language and the Structure of Reasons.” Video of all 14 sessions.
Five MANA Lectures (2022)
- Lecture 1: “What is Philosophy?”
- Lecture 2: “Intentionality and Language”
- Lecture 3: “Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism”
- Lecture 4: “On the Way to a Pragmatist Theory of the Categories”
- Lecture 5: “Modal Expressivism and Modal Realism: Together Again”
Video Lectures
- “The Pragmatist Enlightenment (and its Problematic Semantics)” Studies on the Origins of Contemporary Philosophy, Sao Paolo Brazil (September 2022)
- “Reason, Reason Relations, and Semantics” Universite de Montreal (January 2022)
- “The Normative Fine Structure of Autonomy and Recognition” University of Warwick (November 2021)
- “A Rortyan Pragmatist Master-Argument” Spinoza Lecture #1, University of Amsterdam 2021. Series title: “Fetishism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and the Second Enlightenment: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality”
- “Hegel’s Recollective Account of Representation” Spinoza Lecture #2, University of Amsterdam 2021. Series title: “Fetishism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and the Second Enlightenment: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality”
- “A Hegelian Model of Legal Concept Determination” Spinoza Chair Staff Colloquium Presentation University of Amsterdam (June 2021)
- “Some Strands of Wittgenstein’s Normative Pragmatism and Some Strains of his Semantic Nihilism” (Cardinal Mercier Chair Lecture, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, May 2021)
- “From Logical Expressivism to Expressivist Logics” (Mercier Chair Colloquium, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, May 2021)
- “Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars’s Arguments Against Empiricism” (Mercier Chair Colloquium, K.U. Leuven, Belgium, May 2021)
- “Representation, Expression, and Recollection: Semantic Dimensions of Hegel’s Phenomenology” (Stanford University Philosophy Colloquium, April 2, 2021)
- “Self-Consciousness and Freedom in Kant and Hegel” Short informal talk at Pitt April 8, 2021)
- “An Introduction to Hegelian Logic and Metaphysics” (Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, 2021)
- A Spirit of Trust: Author Meets Critics Session with Mark Okrent (APA January 2021)
- A Spirit of Trust: Brandom Meets Critics Jaspers Society with Mark Alznauer, Andrew Cutrofello, Pierre Keller, John Russon, Sebastian Stein (Central APA February 2020)
- VIDEO VERSION: Maria Frapolli and Kurt Wischin (Disputatio 2019) “From Conceptual Content in Big Apes and AI to the Classical Principle of Explosion: An Interview with Robert B. Brandom”
- A Spirit of Trust: Magnanimity and Agency in Hegel’s Phenomenology (Franke lecture, Yale, 2018)
- Reason, Genealogy, and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity (Townsend Lecture, Berkeley, 2013)
- From German Idealism to American Pragmatism–and Back (University College Dublin, 2015)
- From German Idealism to American Pragmatism–and Back + Discussion w Huw Price (Cambridge, 2012)
- On the Way to a Pragmatist Theory of the Categories (Kent State, 2015)
- Author Meets Critics Panel on From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars (Kent State, 2015)
- Hegel on Knowing and Representing. Lecture 1: Conceptual Realism and the Semantic Possibility of Knowing (Leipzig, 2015)
- Hegel on Knowing and Representing. Lecture 2: Representation and the Experience of Error (Leipzig, 2015)
- Hegel on Knowing and Representing. Lecture 3: Following the Path of Despair to a Bacchanalian Revel (Leipzig, 2015)
- Sellars’s Metalinguistic Expressive Nominalism (Sellars Centennial Conference Dublin, 2012)
- Animating Ideas of Idealism–A Semantic Sonata in Kant and Hegel. Lecture 1: Norms, Selves, and Concepts (Pittsburgh 2008)
- Animating Ideas of Idealism–A Semantic Sonata in Kant and Hegel. Lecture 2: Autonomy, Community, and Freedom (Pittsburgh 2008)
- Animating Ideas of Idealism–A Semantic Sonata in Kant and Hegel. Lecture 3: History, Reason, and Reality (Pittsburgh 2008)
- How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science (College de France Medal Lecture, 2009)
- Sellars’s Critique of Empiricism (Genoa 2009)
- Metaphilosophical Reflections on the Idea of Metaphysics (Genoa, 2009)
A Pragmatist Semantic Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology:
18 Lectures from A Spirit of Trust
Videos of the Forschungskolleg Analytic German Idealism / Humboldt Lectures, University of Leipzig (2015-2018)
Text of the FAGI-Humboldt Lectures (videos below)
Part One: Knowing and Representing: Reading (between the lines of) Hegel's Introduction (2015)
- Lecture 1: Conceptual Realism and the Semantic Possibility of Knowledge
- Lecture 2: Representation and the Experience of Error: A Functionalist Approach to the Distinction between Appearance and Reality
- Lecture 3: Following the Path of Despair to a Bacchanalian Revel: The Emergence of the Second, True, Object
Part Two: Mediating the Immediate: The Consciousness Chapters of the Phenomenology (2016)
- Lecture 4: Immediacy, Generality, and Recollection: First Lessons in the Structure of Epistemic Authority
- Lecture 5: Understanding the Object/Property Structure in Terms of Negation: An Introduction to Hegelian Logic and Metaphysics
- Lecture 6: Force and Understanding–From Object to Concept: The Ontological Status of Theoretical Entities and the Laws that Implicitly Define Them
- Lecture 7: Infinity, Conceptual Idealism and the Transition to Self-Consciousness
Part Three: Norms, Self-Consciousness, and Recognition (2017)
- Lecture 8: The Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution
- Lecture 9: From Subordination, through Autonomy, to Mutual Recognition: Stages in the History of the Metaphysics of Normativity
- Lecture 10: The Fine Structure of Autonomy and Recognition: The Institution of Normative Statuses by Normative Attitudes
- Lecture 11: The Allegory of Mastery: Pragmatic and Semantic Lessons
Part Four: Hegel's Expressive Metaphysics of Agency (2018)
- Lecture 12: Some Post-Davidsonian Elements of Hegel’s Theory of Agency
- Lecture 13: Agency, Intention, and the Expressive Determination of Content
- Lecture 14: Heroism and Magnanimity: The Post-Modern Form of Self-Conscious Agency
Part Five: Hegel on the Historicity of Normativity (2019)
- Lecture 15: Epochs of Geist: Traditional Normativity as Immediate Sittlichkeit
- Lecture 16: Modernity, Alienation, and Language
- Lecture 17: Genealogy and Magnanimity: The Allegory of the Valet
- Lecture 18: Confession and Forgiveness, Recollection and Trust
John Locke Lectures: Between Saying and Doing
Oxford (2006), Prague (2007), Buenos Aires (2008). These videos are from the Prague presentations.
- Lecture 1: Extending the Project of Analysis (with commentary by John McDowell)
- Lecture 2: Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic (with commentary by John MacFarlane)
- Lecture 3: Artificial Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism (with commentary by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer)
- Lecture 4: Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars (with commentary by Huw Price)
- Lecture 5: Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic (with commentary by Jaroslav Peregrin)
- Lecture 6: Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation (with commentary by Sebastian Rödl)
Video Interviews
- Genoa Interview (2009) Part 1
- Genoa Interview (2009) Part 2
- Leipzig Interview (2008) Part 1
- Leipzig Interview (2008) Part 2
Audio (There is more audio, for graduate seminars, available under "Courses")
- “Ein Gedankenbogen: Rortys Weg vom eliminativen Materialismus zum Pragmatismus” Vorlesung auf Deutsch. Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (2008). Introduced by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer.
- “Global Anti-Representationalism?”