Robert Brandom: Kantian Lessons about Mind, Meaning, and Rationality Part 1

This talk by Robert Brandom was given at a workshop held at the Centre for Time at the Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney on 14 October 2005. A transcript can be found at http://74.125.95.104/search?q=cache:c21GqtzwnXwJ:www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/forsknin...

Visit Brandom's homepage at http://www.pitt.edu/~rbrandom/

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[bon1931]

Brandom ought to go teach on the continent. I thought Anglo-American philosophy had left this kind of jargonistic wheel-spinning philosophy behind. Some of his locutions would make Judith Butler blush with envy. More theater than scholarship. An embarrassment to the profession.

[GodlessPhilosopher]

I share your reservations about Continental obscurantism but most of this is pretty standard Kantian terminology, mostly from the third Critique.

[randyhelzerman]

This lecture is like a Mel Brooks movie: every time you watch it, you find something in it which you didn't see before. Astounding. thanks so much for posting this.

[GodlessPhilosopher]

I agree! No problem!

[bon1931]

As I said above, I don't have a dog in this fight. I've been doing work in generative grammar for a few years now and I'm much happier producing knowledge for the species. I think repudiation of philosophy is a sign of intellectual maturity. Also, I can't find a substantive point in your rebuttal, which sounds a lot like eristic ad hominen attack. Finally, what "semantic issues" does Dr. Brandom address? I don't see how anything mentioned in this talk addresses the desiderata of semantic theory.

[mcdonald928]

@bon1931 Wow bon, if you don't recognize how this is a substantive and meaningful talk about Kant's philosophy by Brandom with his eye for semantic issues, then I suggest you go back to Philosophy 101. You sound like the embarrassment to Anglo-American philosophy for being so ignorant.

[nibus9]

@darkwaterhermit oooh you opened my eyes thanks..

[darkwaterhermit]

@nibus9 because they can

[bon1931]

@S2cents

Not sure what D.D. has to do with anything. My criticism was directed at his turgid presentation, not at the--comparatively anemic--content of his lecture. In any case, I don't really have a dog in this fight. Good luck with the complaisant armchair theorizing about the mind. The venom reflected in my initial comment is inspired by the intellectual dishonesty and shallow showmanship that has become endemic of certain corners of the world of academic philosophy.

[S2Cents]

@bon

Well, you thought wrong and your biased view in favor of Anglophone philosophy is comical. Not familiar with Donald Davidson either, I take it.

[bon1931]

Oh and he wears a beard in emulation of David Lewis his incomparable teacher at Princeton.