Curriculum Vitae

Robert Boyce Brandom

AddressesOfficePhilosophy Department 1001E Cathedral of Learning University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 U.S.A.  

Home1118 King Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15206-1437 U.S.A  

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Personal DataU. S. Citizen, born March 13, 1950.

Married to Barbara Wendeborn Brandom, M.D. (Pediatric Anesthesiologist- Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh; Professor of Anesthesiology- University of Pittsburgh; Director, North American Malignant Hyperthermia Registry)

Two sons (Eric, b. 1982, Russell, b. 1984).

EducationPh.D. Philosophy: 1977, Princeton University

Thesis: Practice and Object Director: Richard Rorty

Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellow, Princeton, 1975–76

Whiting Fellow, 1974–76

B.A. 1972, Yale University

Summa cum laude Honors with Exceptional Distinction, Philosophy

Phi Beta Kappa, 1971

LanguagesEnglish: Native Speaker German: Reading French: Reading Pascal, Prolog, Lisp, Logo, Basic, HTML

Academic PositionsDistinguished Professor of Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh, 2007-present) Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh, 1998-2007)Fellow, Center for the Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh, 1977–present) Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (2006) Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford University 2002-2003) Professor, Philosophy Department (University of Pittsburgh, 1991–1998) Associate Professor, Philosophy Department (University of Pittsburgh, 1981–1990) Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department (University of Pittsburgh, 1976–1981)

Honors and Awards A.W. Mellon Foundation, Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Award (2004) Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2000)

Departmental and University ServiceChairman, Philosophy Department, 1993–1997 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Council, 1995–96 Chair, FAS Humanities Council, 1995–96 Director of Graduate Studies, Philosophy Department, 1989–1993 Graduate Placement Officer, Philosophy Department, 1978–80, 1982, 1984–86 Vice Chairman, Philosophy Department, 1981–83 College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Review Committee, Humanities, 1988–90 Academic Integrity Review Board 1986–87 Senate Computer Usage Committee 1984–86

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tenure Council 1982–83, 1989–90 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faculty Grants Committee, 1977–81

Dissertations DirectedLynne Tirrell, Ph.D. 1986 Douglas Butler, Ph.D. 1988 Mark Lance, Ph.D. 1988 Marc Lange, Ph.D. 1990 Irad Kimhi, Ph.D. 1993 Henry Jackman, Ph.D. 1996 Mark McCullagh, Ph.D. 1997 Katarzyna Paprzycka, Ph.D. 1997 David Beisecker, Ph.D. 1999 John MacFarlane, Ph.D. 2000 Douglas Patterson, Ph.D. 2000 Janice Dowell, Ph.D. 2002Kevin Scharp, Ph.D. 2005Herb Wilson, Ph.D. Andrea Rieber, Ph.D. Jack Fortune, Ph.D.Kris Duda, Ph. D.Kathryn Lindeman, Ph.D.Greg Strom, Ph. D.

Dissertation Committee ServiceGallagher, Neil. (3/78)Massey, Barbara (3/79) Blackburn, Thomas (4/79)Edelberg, Walter (5/79)Dau, Paolo (6/80)Brower, Bruce (4/81) Brown, M.B. (6/81)Krall, Catherine (5/82) Morris, Michael (7/82)Gauker, Christopher (11/82) Horty, John (6/83)Knezevich, Lilly (7/83)Kremer, Michael (11/83)Zipursky, Benjamin (3/85) Hurley, Paul (4/86)Macbeth, Danielle (11/86) Williams, Christopher (5/87) Blattner, William (5/87)

Moore, James (11/87) Carey, David (12/87) Van Gelder, Timothy (10/88) Worley, Sara (2/89) Finkelstein, David (2/89) Witherspoon, Edward (10/89) Vogler, Candace (2/90)Vasiliou, Iakovos (5/90) Antonelli, Aldo (5/90) Green, Mitchell (5/90) Berry, Tom (8/93) Helm, Bennett (3/95) Tenenbaum, Sergio (9/95) Kremer, Philip (6/94) Gunnarsson, Logi (9/95) Xu, Ming (2/96) Gal, Ofer (HPS - 5/96) Roberts, John (4/99) Cohen, Zvi (10/99) Nagel, Jennifer (4/00) Pruss, Alexander (4/01) Sterrett, Susan (11/99) Tumulty, Maura (4/02)Shapiro, Lionel (4/04)Boyle, Matthew (8/05) Keranen, Jukka (9/05)Puryear, Stephen (12/05)Schellenberg, Susanna (9/06)Endre Begby (5/08)Kohei Kishida (admitted to candidacy 4/07)Ian Blecher (admitted to candidacy 9/07)Joshua Stuchlik (admitted to candidacy 12/07)Alexandra Newton (admitted to candidacy 12/07)Alp Aker (admitted to candidacy 4/08)

Professional Service

Positions and Committees:Eastern Division Representative, American Philosophical Association, 2004-7 Executive Committee, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, 2001-2003 Referee, National Humanities Center, 2000. Site Visitor, Wayne State University Philosophy Department, 2000 Referee, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program, 1998, 1999. 

Chair, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Program Committee 1996–7 American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Program Committee 1995–97 Site Visitor, University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee Philosophy Department, 1996

Editorial Board:Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1995- Jahrbuch des Deutscher Idealismus 2001- Philosophiques 2000-Philosophers’ Imprint 2000-

Manuscript Referee: Harvard University Press Princeton University Press Cambridge University Press Oxford University Press Cornell University Press Pennsylvania State University Press University of Pittsburgh Press Philosophical Review Journal of Philosophy Nous Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Journal of Philosophical Logic Synthese American Philosophical Quarterly Philosophy of Science Journal of the History of Philosophy Journal of the History and Philosophy of Logic Journal of Philosophical Research Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic Nature and System Philosophical Studies

Tenure and Promotions Referee for: Cornell University Dartmouth Johns Hopkins University Harvard University M.I.T. Northwestern University Ohio State University Princeton University State University of New York/Stony Brook Tulane University University of California/Berkeley University of California/Irvine

University of California/San Diego University of Chicago University of Chicago––English University of Illinois/Chicago Circle University of New Hampshire University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill University of Pennsylvania University of Syracuse University of Texas/Austin University of Toronto University of Washington University of Wisconsin Vanderbilt University Wesleyan University Yale University

Publications

Books:1. Perspectives on Pragmatism: Classical, Recent, and Contemporary

Harvard University Press, forthcoming in 2011

2. Reason in Philosophy: Animating IdeasHarvard University Press, 2009, 248 pp.ISBN#0-674-03449-X

3. Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic PragmatismOxford University Press, 2008, 240 pp.ISBN#0-199-54287-2

4. In the Space of Reasons: Selected Essays of Wilfrid SellarsEdited with an Introduction by Kevin Scharp and Robert Brandom.Harvard University Press, 2007, 528 pp.ISBN#0-674-02498-2

5.    Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of IntentionalityHarvard University Press, 2002, 430 pp. ISBN#0-674-00903-7

6.    Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism Harvard University Press, 2000 (paperback 2001), 230 pp. ISBN#0-674-00158-3 (cloth), #0-674-00692-5 (paper)

Begründung und Begreifen: Eine Einfuhrung in den Inferentialismus(German translation of Articulating Reasons)Eva Gilmer (trans.), Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2001 ISBN#3-518-58308-5

La articulación de las rezones: Una introducción al inferencialismo(Spanish translation of Articulating Reasons)Eduardo de Bustos & Eulalia Perez Sedeño (trans.), Siglo XXI (Veintiuno) de España Editores, Madrid 2002 ISBN#84-323-1105-7

Articolare le Ragioni: Un'introduzione all'inferenzialismo(Italian translation of Articulating Reasons)Carlo Nizzo (trans.), Il Saggiatore, Milano 2002 ISBN#88-428-0958-6

L'Articulation des raisons(French Translation of Articulating Reasons)Claudine Tiercelin and Jean-Pierre Cometti (trans.), Les Editions du Cerf, Paris,2009, 237 pp.ISBN#978-2-204-08355-3

Japanese translation in preparation.

7.    Rorty and His CriticsEdited, with an Introduction (includes "Vocabularies of Pragmatism") by Robert Brandom

Original essays by: Rorty, Habermas, Davidson, Putnam, Dennett, McDowell, Bouveresse, Brandom, Williams, Allen, Bilgrami, Conant, and Ramberg. Blackwell's Publishers, Oxford, July 2000ISBN#0-631-20981-6 (cloth), #0-631-20982-4 (paper)

Chinese translation in preparation.

8.    Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mindby Wilfrid SellarsRobert B. Brandom (ed.) Harvard University Press, 1997 With an Introduction by Richard Rorty and Study Guide by Robert BrandomISBN#0-674-25154-7 (cloth) #0-674-25155-5 (paper)

O Empeirismos kai H Philosophia tou Nou (Greek translation of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind) Christos Marsellos (trans.), Hestia, 2005, 239 pp. ISBN#960-05-1225-6

Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind(Japanese translation) Iwanami Shoten Publishers, Tokyo, 2006, 240 pp.ISBN#4-00-022752-1

Empirismo e a Filosofia da Mente(Portugese translation)Editora Vozes, Petrópolis, 2008, 176 pp.ISBN#978-8532637437

Chinese translation in preparation for Shanghai Translation Publishing House

9.    Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment Harvard University Press (Cambridge) 1994. 741 pp. ISBN#0-674-54319-X 9 (cloth), #0-674-54330-0 (paper)

Expressive Vernunft: Begründung, Repräsentation und diskursive Festlegung(German translation of Making It Explicit)Eva Gilmer and Hermann Vetter (trans.), Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt, 2000, 1001 pp. ISBN#3-518-58283-6

Hacerlo Explícito(Spanish transation of Making It Explicit)ángela Ackermann Pilári and Joana Rosselló (trans.), Herder, Barcelona, 2005, 943 pp. ISBN#84-254-2243-4

French translation in preparation by Sabine Plaud for Editions du Cerf.

10.    The Logic of Inconsistency with Nicholas Rescher Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1980, 174 pp. ISBN#0-631-11581-1

Articles: "How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science"

Critique and Humanism, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2010, pp. 151-174

"Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism"

in Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity, and Realism, Willem deVries (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. 33-62

"Ein Gedankenbogen: Rortys Weg vom eliminativen Materialismus zumPragmatismus"

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 2009, pp. 5-11

"Esquisse d’un programme pour une lecture critique de Hegel: Comparer les concepts empiriques at les concepts logiques”

Philosophie, Vol. 99, 2008, pp. 63-95

"Autonomy, Community, and Freedom"

in Autonomy of Reason?, Riccardo Dottori (ed.), LIT Verlag, 2008, pp. 166-178

"Responses"

in The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (ed.), John Benjamins, 2008, pp. 209-230

"Untimely Review of Georg Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit"

Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, Vol. 27, 2008, pp. 161-164

"Towards an Analytic Pragmatism"

in Robert Brandom: Analytic Pragmatist, Bernd Prien and David P. Schweikard (eds.), Transaction Books, 2008

"Replies"

in Robert Brandom: Analytic Pragmatist, Bernd Prien and David P. Schweikard (eds.), Transaction Books, 2008, pp. 163- 194

"Heidegger’s Categories in Being and Time"

in A Companion to Heidegger, H. Dreyfus and M. Wrathall (eds.), Blackwell Publishing, 2007

"Inferentialism and Some of its Challenges"

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol 74, No 3, 2007, pp. 651-676

"The Structure of Desire and Recognition: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution"

Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol 33, No 1, 2007, pp. 127-150

Reprinted in Von der Logik zur Sprache, Rüdiger Bubner und Gunnar Hindrichs (hrsg), Klett-Cotta, 2007, pp. 426-449

Reprinted in Dialectics, Self-Consciousness, and Recognition, A. Grøn, M. Raffnsøe-Møller, and A. Sørensen (eds.), Aarhus University Press/NSU Press, 2009, pp. 140-171

Translated into French as "La Structure du désir et de la reconnaissance: conscience de soi et autoconstitution," in La Phénomenologie de l’ésprit de Hegel: lectures contemporaines, Dario Perinetti and Marie-André Ricard (eds.), Presses Universitaires de France, 2009, pp. 17-51

Translated into Italian as "La Struttura del desiderio e del riconoscimento: auto-coscienza e auto-constituzione," in Lo Spazio sociale della ragione, Luigio Ruggio and Italo Testa (eds.), Mimesis Edizione, 2009, pp. 261-290

"Kantian Lessons About Mind, Meaning, and Rationality"

Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol 44, Supplement, 2006, pp. 49-71

Also in Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, Vol 84, Nos 2 and 3, 2007, pp. 109-129

"Semantik ohne Wahrheit", An interview with Robert Brandom by Matthias Haase

Deutsche-Zeitschrift-fuer-Philosophie, Vol 54, No 3, 2006, pp. 449-466

"Responses to Pippin, Macbeth, and Haugeland"

European Journal of Philosophy, Vol 13, No 3, December 2005, pp. 429-441

"Responses"

Pragmatics and Cognition, Vol 13, No 1, 2005, pp. 227-249

"Sketch of a Program for a Critical Reading of Hegel. Comparing Empirical and Logical Concepts"

Internationales Jahrbuch des Deutschen Idealismus, Vol 3, 2005, pp. 131-161

"From a Critique of Cognitive Internalism to a Conception of Objective Spirit: Reflections on Descombes's Anthropological Holism"

Inquiry, Vol 47, No 3, June 2004, pp. 236-253

"The Pragmatist Enlightenment (and its Problematic Semantics)"

European Journal of Philosophy, Vol 12 No 1, April 2004, pp. 1-16

Translated into Portugese as "O Iluminismo Pragmatista” at http://www.filosofia.pro.br/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=16

Translated into Czech as " Pragmatistické osvícenství (a jeho problematická sémantika)" in Filosoficky Casopis, Vol 52, No 2, 2004, pp. 257-275

"Selbstbewusstsein und Selbst-Konstitution"

in Hegels Erbe, Cristoph Halbig, Michael Quante und Ludwig Siep (hrsg), Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2004, pp. 46-77

"Hermeneutic Practice and Theories of Meaning"

SATS - Nordic Journal of Philosophy, Vol 5 No 1, 2004, pp. 5-26

"Critical notice of Blind and Worried or The Sorter Resorted"

Theoria, Vol 70 Parts 2-3, 2004, pp. 298-302

"Ein sozialer Weg vom Begründen zum Repräsentieren"

in Geschichte der Philosophie in Text und Darstellung: Gegenwart, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer (hrsg), Philipp Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, pp. 252-287

"Hegelian Pragmatism and Social Emancipation: An Interview with Robert Brandom”

An interview with Robert Brandom by Italo Testa, Constellations, Vol 10 No 4, December 2003, pp. 554-570

"When Philosophy Paints its Blue on Grey: Irony and the Pragmatist Enlightenment"

boundary 2, Vol 29 No 2, Summer 2002, pp. 1-28

Translated into German as "Wenn die Philosophie Ihr Blau in Grau malt: Ironie und die pragmatische Aufklärung," in Pragmatisch denken André Fuhrmann und Erik J. Olsson (hrsg), Ontos Verlag, Frankfurt 2004, pp. 1-31

Reprinted in Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire, Chad Katzer and Eduardo Medieta (eds.), Indiana University Press, 2009, pp. 19-45

"Geist als Verantwortung: Im Gespräch mit Philosophen Robert Brandom."

Interview by Ralf Müller, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, August 17, 2002

"Overcoming a Dualism of Concepts and Causes: The Basic Argument of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind”

in the Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics Richard M. Gale (ed.), Blackwell Publishing 2002, pp. 263-281

"Expressive vs. Explanatory Deflationism about Truth"

in What Is Truth? Richard Schantz (ed.), Hawthorne de Gruyter, Berlin & N.Y 2002, pp. 103-119

Reprinted in Deflationary Truth, Bradley P. Armour-Garb and JC Beall (eds.), Open Court, Chicago, 2005, pp. 237-257

To be reprinted in a forthcoming book edited by James Conant

"Non-inferential Knowledge, Perceptual Experience, and Secondary Qualities: Placing McDowell's Empiricism"

in Reading McDowell: On Mind and World, Nicholas H. Smith (ed.), Routledge 2002

Abbreviated version in Mind in World, János Boros (ed.), Brambauer, Pécs 2005, pp. 117 - 130

"Pragmatics and Pragmatisms"

in Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism, James Conant and Urszula M. Zeglen (eds.), Routledge, 2002, pp. 40-59

Translated into German as "Pragmatik und Pragmatismus," in Die Renaissance des Pragmatismus, M. Sandbothe (ed.), Velbrück Wissenschaft, 2000, pp. 29-58

"Pragmatisto e metafisica hegeliana (Intervista)"

Interview with Italo Testa, Iride, No 34, December 2001, pp. 575-595

"Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality"

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol 63 No 3, November 2001, pp. 587-609

Translated into German as "Das Modale und die Normativität der Intentionalität," in Hilary Putnam und die Tradition des Pragmatismus, Marie-Luise Raters und Marcus Willaschek (hrsg.), Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, pp. 383-403

Translated into Czech as "Modalita, normativita a intencionalita," in Moznost Skutecnost Nutnost: príspevky k modální propedeutice Vojtech Kolman (ed.), Filosofia, Praha 2005, pp. 249-274

"Der Mensch, das normative Wesen: über die Grundlagen unseres Sprechens. Eine Einführung"

Die Zeit (Hamburg) 29, July 12, 2001

"Le armi linguistiche della repressione sociale"

Interview, Il Manifesto (Italy), June 5, 2001

"Holism and Idealism in Hegel's Phenomenology"

Hegel Studien Walter Jaeschke & Ludwig Siep (eds) Band 36, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2001, pp. 57-92

Translated into Italian as "Olismo e idealismo nella Fenomenologia di Hegel," in Hegel Contemporaneo, Luigi Ruggiu e Italo Testa (eds.), Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Napoli 2003, pp. 247-289

Translated into Polish as "Holizm i idealizm w 'Fenomenologii' Hegla" in Przeglad Filozoficzno-Literacki , Vol 1 No 7, 2004

"Objektivität und die normative Feinstruktur der Rationalität"

in Die Öffentlichkeit der Vernunft und die Vernunft der Öffentlichkeit: Festschrift für Jürgen Habermas, Lutz Wingert und Klaus Günther (hrsg), Suhrkamp Verlag, 2001, pp. 126-150

"Reason, Expression, and the Philosophical Enterprise"

in What Is Philosophy?, C.P. Ragland and Sarah Heidt (eds.), Yale University Press, 2001, pp. 74-95

Translated into Czech as "Rozum, vyjádrení a filosofie," in Filosoficky, ústav Akademie Ceské Republiky, 2000, Rocnik 48, pp. 419-437

Forthcoming in German translation in a book edited by Richard Raatzsch

"What Do Expressions of Preference Express?"

in Practical Rationality and Preference: Essays for David Gauthier, Christopher Morris and Arthur Ripstein (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 11-36

"Facts, Norms, and Normative Facts: Reply to Habermas' 'From Kant to Hegel: On Robert Brandom's Pragmatic Philosophy of Language'"

European Journal of Philosophy, Vol 8 No 3, December 2000, pp. 356-374

"Fighting Skepticism with Skepticism: Supervaluational Epistemology, Semantic Autonomy, and Natural Kind Skepticism"

Facta Philosophica, Vol 2 No 2, 2000, pp. 163-178

"Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthesizing Naturalism and Historicism"

in Richard Rorty: The Philosopher Meets his Critics, Robert B. Brandom (ed.), Basil Blackwell U.K., Oxford 2000, pp. 156-183

"Die zentrale Funktion von Sellars' Zwei-Komponenten-Konzeption für die Argumente in "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind"

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Vol 4 No 48, Berlin 2000, pp. 599-613

"Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism: Negotiation and Administration in Hegel's Account of the Structure and Content of Conceptual Norms"

European Journal of Philosophy, Vol 7 No 2, August 1999, pp. 164-189

Reprinted in Die Weltgeschichte- das Weltgericht Stuttgartner Hegel-Kongreß 1999 R. Bubner and W. Mesch (eds.), Klett-Cotta 2001

Translated into French as "Quelques themes pragmatists dans l'idéalisme de Hegel: Négociation et administration dans la conception hégélienne de la structure et du contenu des normes conceptuelles,” in Philosophiques, Vol 27 No 2, Autumn 2000, pp. 231-261

Translated into German as " Pragmatische Themen in Hegels Idealismus: Unterhandlung und Verwaltung der Struktur und des Gehalts in Hegels Erklärung begrifflicher Normen," in the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Vol 47 No 3, Berlin 1999, pp. 355-381

Translated into Czech as "Niektoré pragmatické témy v Hegelovam idealizme: vyjednávanie a spravovanie v Hegelovam vysvetieni struktúry a obsahu pojmovych noriem," Filozofia, Vol 55 No 9, 2000 pp. 719-741

Translated into Japanese, in Thought, 2003.4 No 948, pp. 111-147

Italian translation forthcoming

"Von Begriffsanalyse zu einer systematischen Metaphysik"

Interview, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Vol 47 No 6, 1999, pp. 1005-1020

"Interview with Robert Brandom"

Interview with Carlo Penco, Epistemologia XXII, 1999, pp. 143-150

"Dasein, the Being that Thematizes"

Epoché, Vol 5 No.s 1&2, 1997 (published Fall of 1999), pp. 1-40

Translated into Finnish as "Dasein-tematisoiva oleva," in Katseen Tarkentaminen:kirjoituksia Martin Heideggerin Olemisesta ja ajasta, Leena Kakkori (ed.), SoPhi, Jyvaskylän Yliopisto 2003, pp. 42-65.

"Sapere e Agire: Una Questione di Responsabilitá"

Il Sole-24 Ore, May 23, 1999, p. 32

"Seeing Another Point of View: Review of A. W. Moore's Points of View"

Times Literary Supplement, August 28, 1998

"Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism"

Monist, Vol 81 No 3: "Reunifying Epistemology", July 1998, pp. 371-392

"Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning"

Philosophical Perspectives 12: Language, Mind, and Ontology, James Tomberlin (ed.), 1998

Reprinted in Varieties of Practical Reasoning, Elijah Millgram (ed.), M.I.T. Press, Bradford 2001

"From Truth to Semantics: A Path Through Making It Explicit"

With replies to comments by James Tomberlin, Danielle Macbeth, and Mark LancePhilosophical Issues 8: Truth, Sociedad Filosofica Ibero-Americano, 1997, pp. 141-154 and pp. 199-214

Précis of Making It Explicit

with replies to papers by John McDowell, Gideon Rosen, Richard Rorty, and Jay Rosenberg, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol 57 No 1, March 1997, pp. 153-156 and pp. 189-204

"The Significance of Complex Numbers for Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics"

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Winter 1996, pp. 293-315

"Perception and Rational Constraint"

in Philosophical Issues Vol 7:Perception , E. Villanueva (ed.), Proceedings of Sociedad Filosofica Ibero Americano, 1996, pp. 241-260

Abbreviated version in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Vol 58 No 2, June 1998, pp. 369-374

Wilfrid Sellars: Biographical Sketch

ACLS volume National Biography, Oxford University Press

"Knowledge and the Social Articulation of the Space of Reasons"

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol 55 No 4, December 1995, pp. 895-908

Reprinted in Epistemology: An Anthology, E. Sosa (ed.), Blackwell Publishing, 1999

"Expressing and Attributing Beliefs"

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol 54 No 4, December 1994

"Unsuccessful Semantics"

Analysis, Vol 54 No 3, July 1994, pp. 175-178

"Reasoning and Representing"

in Philosophy in Mind: The Place of Philosophy in the Study of Mind, Michaelis Michael and John O'Leary-Hawthorne (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1994, pp. 159-178.

Review of H. Putnam's Renewing Philosophy

Journal of Philosophy, Vol 91 No 3, March 1994, pp. 140-143

"The Social Anatomy of Inference"

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol 53 No 3, September 1993, pp. 661-666

"Three Problems with the Empiricist Conception of Concepts"

New Directions in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 2, Eero Hyvönen, Jouko Seppänen, and Markku Syrjänen (eds.), STeP-92 Tekoälyn uudet suunat, Publications of the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society (FAIS), 1992

Reprinted in Mind and Cognition: Philosophical Perspectives into Cognitive Science and AI, Leila Haaparanta and Sara Heinämaa, (eds.), Acta Philosophica Fennica, Vol 58, 1995, pp. 16-35

Review of The Nature of Mental Things, by Arthur Collins

The Philosophical Review , Vol 99 No 1, January 1990

"Inference, Expression, and Induction: Sellarsian Themes"

Philosophical Studies, Vol 54, 1988, pp. 257-285.

"Pragmatism, Phenomenalism, and Truth Talk"

Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol 12: Realism, 1988, pp. 75-93

Translated into Italian as "Pragmatismo, fenomenismo e discorso sulla verita"

in Il Neopragmatismo, Giancarlo Marchetti (ed.), La Nuova Italia, Biblioteca di Cultura #245, Scandicci, Firenze, 1999

"Singular Terms and Sentential Sign Designs"

Philosophical Topics, Vol 15 No. 1, Spring 1987, pp. 125-167

Review of Minimal Rationality, by Christopher Cherniak

History and Philosophy of Logic, 1987

Review of Assertion and Conditionals, by Anthony Appiah

The Philosophical Review, 1987.

"Frege's Technical Concepts"

in Frege Synthesized: Essays on the Philosophical and Foundational Work of G. Frege, L. Haaparanta and J. Hintikka, Synthese Library, D. Reidel 1986 pp. 253-295

"Varieties of Understanding"

in Reason and Rationality in Natural Science, N. Rescher (ed.), University Press of America, 1985, pp. 27-51

"Reference Explained Away"

Journal of Philosophy, Vol 81 No 9, September 1984, pp. 469-492

Reprinted in Philosopher's Annual "Best 10 philosophical articles of 1984", Ridgeview Publishing Co., 1985

Reprinted in Deflationary Truth, Bradley P. Amrour-Garb and JC Beall (eds.), Open Court, Chicago 2005, pp. 258-281

"Asserting"

Noûs, Vol 17 No 4, November 1983, pp. 637-650

"Heidegger's Categories in Being and Time"

Monist, Vol 66 No 3, July 1983, pp. 387-409

Reprinted in Heidegger : A Critical Reader, Hubert L. Dreyfus and Harrison Hall (eds.), Blackwell, Oxford 1992, pp. 45-64.

Reprinted in A Companion to Heidegger, Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall (eds.), Blackwell, Oxford 2005, pp. 214-232

Translated into German in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Vol 45 No 4, 1997, pp. 531-549

"Uptake and Distribution of Halothane in Infants: In Vivo Measurements and Computer Simulations"

with B. W. Brandom, M.D. and D. R. Cook, M.D., Anesthesia and Analgesia, Vol 62, 1983, pp. 404-410.

Review of Analytic Philosophy of Technology, by F. Rapp

Isis, 1983

"Points of View and Practical Reasoning"

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, June 1982, pp. 321-333

"Leibniz and Degrees of Perception"

Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol 19 No 4, October 1981, pp. 447-479

Reprinted in Leibniz: Critical Assessments, R. S. Woolhouse (ed.), Routledge, London 1994

"A Semantic Paradox of Material Implication"

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Vol 22 No 2, April 1981, pp. 129-132

Review of Philosophy of Logics, by Susan Haack

Journal of History and Philosophy of Logic, 1981.

"Asserting"

Abstract of Invited APA paper, Journal of Philosophy, December, 1980

"A Microcomputer Based Model of Anesthetic Uptake and Distribution"

with B. W. Brandom, M.D., Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Instrument Society of America, 1980, pp. 295-300

"A Binary Sheffer Operator Which Does the Work of Quantifiers and Sentential Connectives"

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Vol 20 No 2, April 1979, pp. 262-264

"Freedom and Constraint By Norms"

American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 16 No 3, April 1979, pp. 187-196

Reprinted in Hermeneutics and Praxis, R. Hollinger (ed.), University of Notre Dame Press, 1985

"Adequacy and the Individuation of Ideas in Spinoza's Ethics"

Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol 14 No 2, April 1976, pp. 147-162

"Truth and Assertibility"

Journal of Philosophy, Vol 78 No 6, March 1976, pp. 137-149

Reprinted in Significato e Teorie del Linguaggio, Andrea Bottani and Carlo Penco (eds.), FrancoAngeli, Milano 1991, pp. 155-172

Presentations

“How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science,” Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, March 19, 2010.

Presentation to graduate seminar on “Naturalism and Normativity in Recent Analytic Phi-losophy” by Andrew Chignell and Richard Boyd, Cornell University, March 18, 2010.

Negativity and Dialectics of Recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology: Contemporary Per-spectives on German Idealism, Facultat de Filosofia i Ciències de l’Educació, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, December 9-11, 2009.

1. “Norms, Selves, and Concepts,” December 9, 20092. “Autonomy, Community, and Freedom,” December 10, 20093. “History, Reason, and Reality,” December 11, 2009

“Global Anti-Representationalism?” 20th Anniversary Conference on Rorty and the Mir-ror of Nature , Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, University of Lon-don, London, United Kingdom, November 6, 2009.

“How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science,” University of Pittsburgh, Oc-tober 30, 2009.

“How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science,” Ohio University, September 2, 2009.

“Global Anti-Representationalism?” Conference on Expressivism, Pluralism & Represen-tationalism, The Centre for Time, Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Syd-ney, Australia, July 22-24, 2009.

“How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science,” medal lecture, Collège de France, Paris, France.

“Towards Reconciling Two Heroes: Habermas and Hegel,” Conference on The Philoso-phy of Jürgen Habermas, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, May 18-19, 2009.

“How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science,” Stanford University Philoso-phy Department Colloquium, May 8, 2009.

Towards an Analytic Pragmatism: Workshop on the Recent Philosophy of Language of Robert B. Brandom, University of Genoa, Italy, April 19-23, 2009.

1. "Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars’s Arguments against Empiri-cism"

2. "How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science"3. "Metaphilosphical Reflections on the Idea of Metaphysics"

"Hegel and Analytic Philosophy", American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, April 7-11, 2009.

Opening remarks, Logics of Consequence: A Celebration of Nuel Belnap’s Work in Philosophical Logic, University of Pittsburgh, April 3-4, 2009.

"Autonomy, Community, and Freedom", keynote address, Hegel and German Idealism conference, Notre Dame University, March 8-9, 2009.

"An Arc of Thought: From Rorty's Eliminative Materialism to his Pragmatism", American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, December 29, 2008.

"Autonomy, Community, and Freedom", Colgate University, November 7, 2008. "How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science", University of Buenos Aires,

Argentina, October 10, 2008. University of Buenos Aires, Argentina October 7-19, 2008.

1. "Norms, Selves, and Concepts"2. "Autonomy, Community, and Freedom"

3. "History, Reason, and Reality" "Metaphilosphical Reflections on the Idea of Metaphysics", keynote address, IX

International Colloquium in Philosophy, Bariloche, Argentina, October 2-4, 2008. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany July 1-2, 2008.

1. "Norms, Selves, and Concepts"2. "Autonomy, Community, and Freedom"3. "History, Reason, and Reality"

"Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, June 26, 2008.

"How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science", Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich, Germany, June 25, 2008.

"Incompatibility Semantics and the Logic Intrinsic to Consequence Relations", keynote address, Logica 2008, Philosophy Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Hejnice, Czech Republic, June 16-20, 2008.

"Ein Gedankenbogen: von Rortys Eliminativen Materialismus zu seinem Pragmatismus", Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, June 6, 2008.

"Toward an Analytic Pragmatism", Dresden University of Technology, Germany, June 5, 2008.

Early Modern Inferentialism, Workshop with Robert Brandom, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, May 29-30, 2008.

"Toward an Analytic Pragmatism", Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany, May 29, 2008.

"Philosophy and the Expressive Freedom of Thought", University of Cologne, Germany, May 28, 2008.

"An Arc of Thought: From Rorty's Eliminative Materialism to his Pragmatism", University of Pecs, Hungary, May 13-14, 2008.

"Autonomy, Community, and Freedom", Heidelberg University, Germany, May 7, 2008. "Autonomy, Community, and Freedom", Political Science Department, University of

Bremen, Bremen, Germany, April 30, 2008. "How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science", Inaugural Lecture

(Antrittsvorlesung), University of Leipzig, April 23, 2008. "How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science", University College, Dublin,

Dublin, Ireland, March 29, 2008. "An Arc of Thought: From Rorty's Eliminative Materialism to his Pragmatism",

American Philosophical Society, Pacific Division Meeting, Pasdena, California, March 21, 2008.

"Animating Ideas of Idealism", Tsing-Hua National University, Taiwan March 10-12, 2008.

1. "Norms, Selves, and Concepts"2. "Autonomy, Community, and Freedom"3. "History, Reason, and Reality"

"Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, February 1, 2008.

"Towards and Analytic Pragmatism", Jerrold Katz Memorial Lecture, City University of New York, January 30, 2008.

"Norms, Selves, and Concepts", Language and Mind Seminar, New York University, January 29, 2008.

"Autonomy, Community, and Freedom", Language and Mind Seminar, New York University, January 29, 2008.

"Animating Ideas of Idealism", University of Pittsburgh, January 11-12, 2008.1. "Norms, Selves, and Concepts"2. "Autonomy, Community, and Freedom"3. "History, Reason, and Reality"

"Animating Ideas of Idealism", Woodbridge Lectures, Columbia University, New York, New York, November 13-15, 2007.

1. "Norms, Selves, and Concepts"2. "Autonomy, Community, and Freedom"3. "History, Reason, and Reality"

"Towards an Analytic Pragmatism”, Keynote address, Western Canadian Philosophical Association, Saskatoon, Sakatchewan, Canada, October 27, 2007.

"Autonomy, Community, and Freedom", Conference on Autonomy, Rome, Italy, October 17, 2007.

"Autonomy, Community, and Freedom", Luissa University, Rome, Italy, October 15, 2007.

"An Arc of Thought: From Rorty's Eliminative Materialism to his Pragmatism", Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., September 23, 2007.

"Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, August 30, 2007.

"Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality", Monash University, Sydney, Australia, August 24, 2007.

"Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, August 23, 2007.

"Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 4-6, 2007.

1. "Extending the Project of Analysis"2. "Elaborating Abilities: the Expressive Role of Logic"3. "Artificial Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism"4. "Modality and Normativity: from Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars"5. "Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic"6. "Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation"

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning, and Rationality" Goethe Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 3, 2007.

"Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise", University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, May 3, 2007.

"Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", A conference on Bob Brandom's 2006 John Locke Lectures, Prague, Czech Republic, April 28-30, 2007.

1. "Extending the Project of Analysis", with comments by John McDowell. 2. "Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic", with comments by John

MacFarlane.3. "Artificial Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism", with comments by Pirmin

Stekeler-Weithofer

4. "Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars", with comments by Huw Price.

5. "Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic", with comments by Jaroslav Peregrin.

6. "Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation", with comments by Sebastian Roedl.

"Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise", "School of Inferentialism" conference, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, April 25, 2007.

"Platforms, Patchworks, and Parking Garages: Wilson's Account of Conceptual Fine-Structure in Wandering Significance", Central Division, American Philosophical Association, "Author Meets Critics" session on Mark Wilson's Wandering Significance, April 20, 2007.

"On Knowing How and Knowing That", Invited presentation for a symposium, "Expanding Epistemology", Pacific Division, American Philosophical Association, April 4, 2007.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", "Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism", "Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", University of Quebec at Montreal, March 29-31, 2007.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", 9th Annual Pitt-Carnegie Mellon Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, March 24, 2007.

"Conceptual Content and Discursive Practice", "Concepts: No Language, No Thought?" Conference, University of Zuerich, Zuerich, Switzerland, March 18, 2007.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", Princeton University, February 22, 2007.

"Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 16, 2007.

"Hermeneutic Practices and Theories of Meaning", UCLA, January 30, 2007. "Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", University of Texas, Austin, January 26, 2007. "Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", University of Houston, January

24, 2007. "Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", Rice University, January 23, 2007. "Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", The Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and

Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, January 10, 2007.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 8, 2007.

"Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", and replies to 8 papers, University of Muenster Conference on Bob Brandom's work, Muenster, Germany, December 13-4, 2006.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", University of Liverpool, December 5, 2006.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", The R. Peter Sylvester Keynote Address, Northern New England Philosophical Association Conference, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, October 27, 2006.

"Desire and Recognition", The Second International "Contemporary Hegel" Conference: "The Social Space of Reason from Hegel Onwards", Venice, Italy, September 28-30, 2006.

"The Structure of Desire and Recognition", Colloquium: Social Ontology and Constitutive Attitudes, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, August 30, 2006.

"Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism", "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind after 50 Years: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Sellars's Lectures in the University of London", Institute of Philosophy at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, London, UK, June 29, 2006.

"Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism", The 2006 John Locke Lectures, Oxford Univeristy, Oxford UK.

1. "Extending the Project of Analysis", May 3, 20062. "Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic", May 10, 20063. "Artificial Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism", May 17, 20064. "Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars", May 24,

20065. "Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic", May 31, 20066. "Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation", June 7, 2006

"Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic", Logic and Language Conference, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, April 28, 2006.

"Analytic Pragmatism", "Meeting on Pragmatism III: Inference and Agency", Granada, Spain, April 21, 2006.

"Sketch of a Program for a Critical Reading of Hegel: Comparing Empirical and Logical Concepts, " NYU Mind and Language Seminar, April 4, 2006.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", The Wade Memorial Lecture, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, March 31, 2006.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", and comments on 5 papers, A Workshop with Bob Brandom, sponsored by the Australian Research Council and the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, October 14, 2005

"Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise", The Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, October 13, 2005.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", Spindel Conference on Social Epistemology, University of Memphis, October 1, 2005.

"Pragmatism", An intensive week-long seminar in the series "Inter-Nordic Graduate Courses in Philosophy", University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, September 13-16, 2005.

"Logical Expressivism and Semantic Inferentialism", The Fourth International Conference on Logic and Cognition", Sun Yat Sen University, China, June 16, 2005.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", Zhongshan University, China, June 13, 2005.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary, April 27, 2005.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality" and comments on 22 papers, Conference on Articulating Reasons and Tales of the Mighty Dead, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary, April 25-26, 2005

"Hermeneutic Practices and Theories of Meaning" and replies to 6 papers, "Shaving Plato's Beard with Brandom's Razor" conference, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, April 21-22, 2005

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", "Why Truth is Not Important in Philosophy", "Conceptual Content and Discursive Practice" and comments on 24 papers on Making It Explicit, Conference on Making It Explicit (XV Inter-University Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science: "Reasons, Norms and Language"), Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, April 18-20, 2005.

"Sketch of a Program for a Critical Reading of Hegel", "Von Kant bis Hegel" conference, University of Pittsburgh, April 1-2, 2005.

Author meets Critics session on Tales of the Mighty Dead (Responses to papers by Danielle Macbeth, Robert Pippin and John Haugeland), American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 23-27, 2005.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", Philosophy Department Colloquium, UNC / Chapel Hill, February 18, 2005.

"Why Truth is Not Important in Philosophy", Humanities Center, Wesleyan University, February 7, 2005.

"Hermeneutic Practices and Theories of Meaning", Conference on Philosophical Historiography, UCLA, January 28-30, 2005.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", Philosophy Department Colloquium, Holy Cross College, MA, January 27, 2005.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality" and 'Debate' with Jerry Fodor, Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, December 4, 2004.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality" and replies to 8 papers on Making It Explicit, Workshop on the Methodology of Making It Explicit, Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich, Germany, November 5-7, 2004.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", Philosophy Department Colloquium, Brown University, October 8, 2004.

"The Structure of Desire and Recognition in Hegel's Phenomenology: Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution," Philosophy Department Colloquium, Purdue University, September 30, 2004.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", Sir Francis Bacon Lecture for the "Contemporary Hegelianism and Naturalism" conference, University of Hertfordshire, U.K., September 14, 2004.

"A Modal Semantics Without Truth", "Truth and Realism" conference, St. Andrews University, Scotland, U.K., June 17-20, 2004.

"Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning and Rationality", Keynote address for the opening of the Center for Mind, Meaning and Rationality, Open University, Milton Keynes, U.K., June 14, 2004.

Three day seminar on "Contemporary Philosophical Theories of Concepts", University of Tampere, Finland, May 17-19, 2004.

“Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution: the Structure of Desire and Recognition”, keynote address Pragmatism and the History of Philosophy: A Symposium on Brandom’s Tales of the Mighty Dead, SUNY/Stony Brook, November 13-15, 2003.

“Hegel on Desire and Recognition”, Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, October 31, 2003.

“The Pragmatist Enlightenment”, Philosophy Department Colloquium, Vassar College, October 10, 2003.

“Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise,” 2003 Vassar Lecture, Vassar College, October 9, 2003.

“Richard Rorty” Interview, BBC, Cambridge, Mass, September 19, 2003. “The Pragmatist Enlightenment (and its Problematic Semantics)”, Keynote address to

conference on Analytic Pragmatism, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, August 4-6, 2003.

“From a Critique of Cognitive Internalism to a Conception of Objective Spirit: Reflections on Descombes’s Anthropological Holism”, Conference on Vincent Descombes’ Les Denrés Mentales, University of Chicago, May 16, 2003.

“Hermeneutic Practice and Theories of Meaning”, Philosophy Department Colloquium, Stanford University, May 9, 2003.

“Hermeneutic Practice and Theories of Meaning”, Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of California/Berkeley, May 1, 2003.

Graduate Student workshop on the work of Robert Brandom, University of California/San Diego. April 19, 2003.

“Inferentialism and Some of Its Challenges”, Philosophy Department colloquium, University of California/San Diego. April 18, 2003.

“Sketch of a Program for a Critical Reading of Hegel”. Keynote address, Graduate Conference in Honor of Richard Bernstein, New School University, New York, NY. April 11, 2003.

Two-day workshop on Brandom’s Making It Explicit, Mathematics Institute, Darmstadt Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany. March 2-3, 2003.

“Conceptual Content and Discursive Commitment”, Ernst Schröder Memorial Lecture, conference on Formal Representations of Conceptual Content, Darmstadt Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany. March 1, 2003.

“Self-Consciousness and Self-Constitution: The Structure of Desire and Recognition” Hegel conference, Münster, Germany. February 27, 2003.

“Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise”. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. January 8, 2003.

“Sketch of a Program for a Critical Reading of Hegel”, Hegel and Analytic Philosophy conference at Notre Dame University. December 8, 2002.

“Incompatibility Semantics for Modal Logic” Language and Thought Working Group, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. December 4, 2002.

“The Pragmatist Enlightenment” Keynote address to Mountain and Plains States Philosophy Association, annual meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada. October 28, 2002.

“Inferentialism and Some of Its Challenges” Keynote address to conference on Inference and Representation Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy 2002 annual meeting, Bergamo, Italy. October 3, 2002 [Last-minute illness prevented attendance.]

“No Experience Necessary” and “Inference and Representation” as staff member of NEH Summer Institute on Consciousness (David Chalmers and David Hoy, organizers), University of California/Santa Cruz; July 20-28, 2002.

“Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise” workshop on the Philosophy of Robert Brandom, Paris, France; May 13, 2002 .

“The Centrality of Sellars’s Two-Ply Account of Observation to the Arguments of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind,” Sellars Conference, Institut d’histoire et de philosophie de science et de ces techniques, Sorbonne, Paris, France; May 11, 2002.

“Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise”, and “Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality”, Philosophy Department, Dalhousie Univesity, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; April 11-12, 2002.

“The Pragmatist Enlightenment, and its Problematic Semantics”, University of Chicago Philosophy Department, April 5, 2002 (plus informal presentation to graduate students).

“Holism and Idealism in Hegel’s Phenomenology”, University of Chicago Philosophy Department, April 4, 2002

Responses to speakers (Christopher Hookway, Sebastian Rödl, Alessandra Tanesini) at one-day Workshop on the Philosophy of Robert Brandom, University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K.,

“Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality”, Philosophy Department, Sussex University, Bristol, U.K. March 8, 2002

“Holism and Idealism in Hegel’s Phenomenology” British Academy Visiting Lecture, Center for Post-Analytic Philosophy University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., March 7, 2002

“Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality”, Seminar on Mind and Language New York University, February 12, 2002.

“Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism” and “Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality”Philosophy Deparment Colloquium, University of Miami, Miami Florida; January 30-February 1, 2002.

“Holism and Idealism in Hegel’s Phenomenology” Ring-Vorlesung on Hegel’s 200th Anniversary, Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany, January 23, 2002.

“Holism and Idealism in Hegel’s Phenomenology” New School University, New York, New York, December 6, 2001.

“Pragmatics and Pragmatisms”, “Holism and Idealism in Hegel’s Phenomenology”, and “Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism” Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy; November 13-17, 2001.

“Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality” University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy Department Colloquium; November 2, 2001.

“Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise” and “Normativity, Inference, and Logic” Distinguished Visitor Series, Haverford College, October 25, 26, 2001.

"Pragmatics and Pragmatisms" Kwansai Gakuin University, Japan, July 21, 2001 "Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality" Kwansai Gakuin University, Japan, July 20,

2001 "What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?" Keio University, Tokyo, Japan,

July 8, 2001 "Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism" Kwansai Gakuin University,

Nishinomiya, Japan, June 23, 2001 "Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism" Kwansai Gakuin University,

Nishinomiya, Japan, June 22, 2001

"Holism and Idealism in Hegel's Phenomenology" Contemporary Hegel: the American reception of Hegel in relation to the European Tradition, Universita Ca Foscari, Venice, Italy, May 17, 2001

"Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality" Pragmatism conference, Konstanz Universität, Konstanz, Germany, May 11, 2001

"Holism and Idealism in Hegel's Phenomenology" Konstanz Universität, Konstanz, Germany, May 11, 2001

"Holism and Idealism in Hegel's Phenomenology" Metaphysical Society- Eastern APA, December 28, 2000

“No Experience Necessary” One-day conference with John McDowell and Danielle Macbeth, University of Pittsburgh, December, 2000

"Holism and Idealism in Hegel's Phenomenology" Vanderbilt University, November 10, 2000

"No Experience Necessary" 3rd Annual Athens-Pittsburgh Philosophy Conference, Rethymnon, Crete, October 30, 2000

"Pragmatics and Pragmatisms" Macquarrie University, Sydney Australia, July 13, 2000 "Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning" University of Sydney, Australia, July 11, 2000 "Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality" Keynote address, Australasian Philosophical

Association meeting Brisbane, Australia; July 7, 2000 "Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality" Pragmatism and Semantics conference,

Prague, Czech Republic, June 21-23 "Pragmatics and Pragmatisms" Putnam and Pragmatism conference, Universität Münster,

Münster, Germany, June 14-17, 2000 "Concept Use and Inference" Conference on Making It Explicit University of Pecs, Pecs,

Hungary June 1-3, 2000 Five lectures: University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark May 8-14, 2000 "Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality" American Philosophical Association Central

Division Meeting Chicago, April 21-23. "Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality" University of Utah, Salt

Lake City, March 24-5, 2000. "Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality" Université de Montréal,

January 21, 2000 "Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise" Philosophical Reading Group,

Stanford University, February 25, 2000 "Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise" Jacobson Lecture, University of

London, March 8, 2000 "Pragmatics and Pragmatisms" University of London, March 10, 2000 "Modality, Normativity, and Intentionality" First Annual Philosophy Conference, Brown

University, November 19-20, 1999 "Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise" Inaugural Lecture as Distinguished

Service Professor, University of Pittsburgh, November 18, 1999 "Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism" University of Michigan, November 12,

1999 "Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise" John Dewey Lecture, University of

Vermont, October 21, 1999

"Actions, Norms, and Practical Reasoning" Faculty Colloquium, University of Vermont, October 22, 1999

"Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism" Hegel Society of Great Britain Conference: "Hegel Today" Pembroke College, Oxford, U.K., September 6-8 1999

"Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality" Conference celebrating Jürgen Habermas' 70th birthday, Frankfurt, Germany, July 8-10, 1999

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism" Philosophical Seminar, University of Marburg, Germany, July 6, 1999.

"A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing" Philosophisches Seminar, University of Tübingen, Germany June 7,1999.

"Some Pragmatic Themes in Hegel's Idealism" Hegel Kongress, International Hegel Vereinigung, Stuttgart, Germany, June 3-5, 1999.

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism" Philosophisches Seminar, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany June 2, 1999.

"Fighting Skepticism with Skepticism: Supervaluational Epistemology, Semantic Autonomy, and Natural Kind Skepticism" Conference on Michael Williams Unnatural Doubts Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary May 9-13, 1999.

"Reply to Josh Dever's "On Inferential Definitions of Singular Terms" Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, LA May 6-8, 1999.

"Normativity and Modality" Boston Colloquium on the Philosophy of Science Boston, Mass. April 27, 1999.

Two Lectures: "Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism" "The Centrality of Sellars' Two-Ply Account of Observation to the Arguments of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" Conference on the Influence of Wilfrid Sellars University of Texas/Austin, April 16-17, 1999.

"Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism"—seminar Georgetown University, April 9, 1999.

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", University of South Carolina/Columbia, Friday, March 26, 1999.

"Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality", New York University Seminar on Mind and Language,Tuesday, February 23, 1999

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", University of Torino at Vercelli, January 28, 1999

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", University of Genoa, January 26, 1999

5 Lectures at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt Am Main: 1. "Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism" January 18, 1999 2. "Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning" January 19, 1999 3. "Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism" January 20, 1999 4. "What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?" January 21, 1999 5. "A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing" January 22, 1999

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena, Germany, January 14, 1999

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Potsdam University, Philosophy Colloquium, Potsdam, Germany, January 13, 1999

"The Centrality of Sellars' Two-Ply Account of Observation to the Arguments of Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind", American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 28, 1998

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", University of Toronto Philosophy Department Colloquium, December 3, 1998

"Pragmatic Themes in Hegel's Idealism: Negotiation and Administration in Hegel's Account of the Structure and Content of Conceptual Norms", Conference on "Hegel and His Legacy", Northwestern University, November 14, 1998

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", S.U.N.Y./Albany Philosophy Department Colloquium, October 23, 1998

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", University of Ohio Philosophy Colloquium, September 25, 1998

"Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality", World Philosophy Conference, Boston, August 10-16, 1998

"Analytic and Continental Philosophy", World Philosophy Conference, Boston, August 10-16, 1998

Three lectures on Social Practice at the NEH Summer Institute "Philosophy of the Social Sciences", Washington University, St. Louis; July 6-10, 1998

"What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?", Logica ’98, Prague, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic; June 23-26, 1998

"Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel’s Idealism", Académie du Midi Conference: "Pragmatism and Idealism", Alet les Bains, France, June 1-5, 1998.

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Heidelberg University, Germany, May 28, 1998

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Frei Universität, Berlin, Germany, May 21, 1998

Seminar on Making It Explicit, with Albrecht Wellmer, Frei Universität, Berlin, Germany, May 20, 1998

"Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism", Humboldts Universität, Berlin, Germany, May 14, 1998

Seminar on Making It Explicit for Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer, Eight presentations. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, May 11-29, 1998

"Non-inferential Knowledge, Perceptual Experience, and Secondary Qualities: Placing McDowell's Empiricism", Conference on John McDowell’s Mind and World, Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary, May 4-5, 1998

"Reason, Expression, and the Philosophic Enterprise", "What is Philosophy?" Conference, Yale University, April 17-18, 1998

"Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality", Vanderbilt University, March 20, 1998

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Washington University, St. Louis, February 26, 1998

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", University of Chicago, Jan/Feb 1998

"Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning" and workshop with Jürgen Habermas, Michael Williams, and Thomas McCarthy, Theory Conference, University of Virginia, November 15, 1997

"Reason and Commitment", Townsend Lectures, University of California at Berkeley, October 27-31, 1997:

1. "Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism" 2. "Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning" 3. "What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?" 4. "A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing" 5. "Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality"

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Donor’s Lecture, Stanford University, October 24, 1997.

Comments on Hans-Julius Schneider’s "Metaphors and Theoretical Terms: Problems in Referring to the Mental", Pittsburgh/Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science "Science at the End of the Century: The Limits of Science" October 3-7 1997.

Three lectures (plus two workshops) on Making It Explicit: NEH Summer Institute "Backgrounds Practices", University of California / Santa Cruz, June 23-27 1997.

"Objectivity and the Normative Fine Structure of Rationality", American Philosophical Association Central Divison Meeting, April 23-25 1997. Commentator: Crispin Wright.

"Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning", Syracuse University, February 28, 1997. "Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism" and "A Social Route from

Reasoning to Representing", Distinguished Visitor Lectures, University of California/Riverside, January 22-24, 1997

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", University of South Florida/Tampa, January 17, 1997.

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Truman T. Metzel Lecture, Northwestern University, November 8, 1996.

"Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning", Indiana University Philosophy Colloquium on Mind and Action, October 18-20, 1996.

"Insights and Blindspots of Reliabilism", SUNY/Buffalo Epistemology Conference, Sept. 27–29, 1996

"Vocabularies of Pragmatism: Synthesizing Naturalism and Historicism", Catedra Ferrater Mora de Pensament Contemporani, Conference on the work of Richard Rorty, Universitat de Girona, Spain, June 25–28, 1996

Symposium on Making It Explicit: "From Truth to Semantics: A Path through Making It Explicit," and,Responses to Tomberlin, Macbeth, Lance, Sociedad Filosofica IberoAmericana, Mexico City, June 16–20, 1996

Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, Summer Seminar on Making It Explicit and McDowell’s Mind and World, June 3–14, 1996. Seven workshop sessions on Making It Explicit, and 3 public lectures:

1. "Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism" June 3, 1996 2. "Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning", June 7, 1996 3. "A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing", June 10, 1996

"Significance of Complex Numbers for Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics", Center for the Philosophy of Science Conference, University of Pisa, Castiglioncella Italy, May 20–24, 1996

"What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?", Oxford Philosophical Society, Oxford, UK, May 16, 1996

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge, UK, May 14, 1996

"Significance of Complex Numbers for Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics", Aristotelian Society, London, UK, May 13, 1996

Symposium on Making It Explicit, Wesleyan University Philosophy Colloquium, March 28–9, 1996

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Philosophy Department Colloquium, Yale University, January 26, 1996

"What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?", Philosophy Colloquium, Harvard University, October 19, 1995

"Perception and Rational Constraint", Eighth Annual Meeting of SOFIA (Sociedad Filosofica IberoAmericano), Cancun, Mexico, June 21, 1995

"Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning", Conference on the Philosophy, Logic, and Simulation of Social Action, University of Helsinki, Finland June 1, 1995

Rektor’s Professor (with medal), University of Helsinki, Finland, Eight Lectures on Making It Explicit, May 22–June 2, 1995

"Comments on Wolfgang Prinz", Joint Konstanz–Pittsburgh Colloquium on the Sciences of the Mind, University of Konstanz, Germany, May 17, 1995

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Philosophy Colloquium, New York University, April 14, 1995

"What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?", Philosophy Colloquium, Columbia University, April 13, 1995

"Reply to Rorty." "Reply to Rosenberg.", Author Meets Critics: Making It Explicit by Robert Brandom, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, March 31, 1995

"Identifying Anaphoric Phenomena", Discourse: Linguistic, Computational, and Philosophical Perspectives Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, March 24–26, 1995

"The Significance of Complex Numbers for Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics", Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, February 3, 1995

"Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism", Haverford College, November 3, 1994

Taft Lecture: "What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?", University of Cincinnati Philosophy Department Colloquium on Semantics, September, 1994

Hempel Lectures :"Inference and Representation", Princeton University, 1994: 1. "Semantic Inferentialism and Logical Expressivism" May 10, 1994 2. "What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?" May 12, 1994 3. "A Social Route from Reasoning to Representing" May 13, 1994

"Knowledge and the Social Articulation of Reasons" Philosophy Colloquium, UNC/Chapel Hill, October 12, 1993

"Incorrigibility: from Descartes to Sellars", Culture Studies Department, University of Pittsburgh, April 1993

"Reasoning and Representing", Philosophy Department Colloquium, Ohio State University, March 30, 1993

"Action, Norms, and Practical Reasoning", Philosophy Faculty Seminar, University of Pittsburgh, March 5, 1993

"What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?", Philosophy Colloquium, Georgetown University, February 12, 1993

"An Expressive Approach to Logic", Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, December 1992

"Making Up Our Minds", Central Division Meetings, American Philosophical Association, April 1992

"The Social Route From Reasoning to Representing", Philosophy Department, Syracuse University, March 20, 1992

"The Social Route From Reasoning to Representing", Philosophy of Science Center and History of Science Department, Johns Hopkins University, February 26, 1992

"Two Concepts of Concepts", Philosophy Department, Johns Hopkins University, February 25, 1992

"The Social Route From Reasoning to Representing", Philosophy Faculty Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh, October 1991

"Inference and Expression", Indiana University of Pennsylvania, April 9, 1991 "Interpreting and Grasping Concepts", Joint Colloquium on the Philosophy of

Interpretation: "Understanding Philosophical Texts: Deconstruction, Hermeneutics, Analysis, and Other

Approaches", Duquesne University, February 22, 1991 "Two Concepts of Concepts", Philosophy of Science Center, University of Pittsburgh,

November 28, 1990 "What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?", 24th Annual Philosophy

Colloquium, UNC/Chapel Hill, October, 1990 Three lectures as Nelson Visiting Philosopher, University of Michigan, Fall 1990:

1. "Inference and Expression." 2. "What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?" 3. "Communication and Representation: Anaphora and De Re Ascriptions"

Three lecture series: "Davidson and Heidegger on Thought and Action", NEH Summer Institute on Heidegger and Davidson, July–August 1990

"Inferentialism and Expression", Language and Thought: 26th Colloquium, Philosophy Department, University of Cincinnnati, March 2–4, 1990

"What Are Singular Terms, and Why Are There Any?", Philosophy of Science Center, University of Pittsburgh, November 1990

"Inferentialism and Expression", Philosophy Colloquium, Syracuse University April, 1989

"Inference, Expression, and Induction", Sellars Conference, Philosophy of Science Center, University of Pittsburgh, October 1987

"Barely Committed", American Philosophical Association, Western Division, May 1986 "Truth Talk", Philosophy of Science Center, University of Pittsburgh, March 1986 "Varieties of Understanding", Philosophy of Science Center Lecture Series, February

1985, University of Pittsburgh "Language as Social Practice", Philosophy Colloquium, University of West Virginia,

April 1983 "Conceivability Revisited", American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division,

December 1982 "Reference Explained Away", Philosophy Colloquium, University of

California/Berkeley, October, 1982 "Reference Explained Away", Philosophy Colloquium, Ohio State University, May 1982

"Anaphoric Reference and Indirect Description", Philosophy Colloquium, University of Wisconsin/Madison, March 1982

"Anaphoric Reference and Indirect Description", Philosophy Faculty Lecture Series, Rutgers University, February, 1982

"Asserting", Invited Paper, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 1980

"Social Practice in Sein und Zeit", Philosophy Department, Princeton University, October, 1980

"Heidegger’s Categories" [Five–lecture series], NEH Summer Institute on Continental Philosophy, June–July 1980, University of California/Berkeley

"A Microcomputer Based Model of Anesthetic Uptake and Distribution", Eleventh Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation, May 1980 [with Barbara W. Brandom, M.D.]

"Reference and Inference in Metaphor", International Philosophy Conference, New York City, May 1977

"Practice and Object", University of Pittsburgh, January 1976