Category Archives: Robert Brandom

conceptual automata

Posted on April 12, 2011 by

With midterms out of the way I’ve been able to begin preparing for some upcoming events. In particular, I’ll be one of the lecturers at this year’s Deleuze Camp, along with Ian Buchanan, Dan Smith, and Ron Bogue (there are … Continue reading →

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From Normative to Problematizing Semantics

Posted on December 21, 2010 by

In my previous posts on Brandom, I may have come across as unduly critical, or as dismissive. That couldn’t be further from the truth. There is much that I find in Brandom’s work that is important, and that I will … Continue reading →

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reculer pour mieux sauter

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

Whether knowingly drawing from Nietzsche’s claim or not, from Human All-too-Human, which asserts that ‘He who strays from tradition becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who remains in tradition is its slave. Destruction follows in any case’, David Lewis’s … Continue reading →

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Spinoza, appetites, and inferentialism

Posted on December 18, 2010 by

Appetite, as Spinoza makes clear, is nothing but our striving to persevere in our being, and this striving, “as related to the mind and body together, it is called appetite” (3P9S). As related to our body, therefore, our appetite is … Continue reading →

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Parrots and Concepts

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

In one of his favorite examples, Robert Brandom points out that while a parrot may very well respond differentially to colors, and even say “red” when presented with a red swatch, the parrot is nonetheless responding much as a thermometer … Continue reading →

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