About the Author
Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. His 1977 Princeton PhD thesis on pragmatism and the philosophy of language was supervised by Richard Rorty. He is author of Making it Explicit (1994), an extension of his thesis.
Features
* Distinguished list of contributors.
* Extended exchanges with Donald Davidson and Jürgen Habermas.
* Substantial new replies and responses by Rorty to each essay.
* The best critical introduction to Rorty's thought as a whole.
* The new material by Rorty presented in this book amounts to a new philosophical work by him.