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Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality
Robert B. Brandom
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Description for Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality
Hardcover. This text provides a different way of looking at the development of Western philosophy from Descartes to modern times. Num Pages: 448 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 45. Weight in Grams: 794.
A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most prominent American philosophers working today provides an entirely new way of looking at the development of Western philosophy from Descartes to the present. Brandom begins by setting out a historical context and outlining a methodological rationale for his enterprise. Then, in chapters on Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Frege, Heidegger, and Sellars, he pursues the most fundamental philosophical issues concerning intentionality, and therefore mindedness itself, revealing an otherwise invisible set of overlapping themes and explanatory ... Read more
A work in the history of systematic philosophy that is itself animated by a systematic philosophic aspiration, this book by one of the most prominent American philosophers working today provides an entirely new way of looking at the development of Western philosophy from Descartes to the present. Brandom begins by setting out a historical context and outlining a methodological rationale for his enterprise. Then, in chapters on Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Frege, Heidegger, and Sellars, he pursues the most fundamental philosophical issues concerning intentionality, and therefore mindedness itself, revealing an otherwise invisible set of overlapping themes and explanatory ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674009035
SKU
V9780674009035
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About Robert B. Brandom
Robert B. Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy. Numerous books have been written about him, including Jeremy Wanderer's Robert Brandom, Ronald Loeffler's Brandom, and Chauncey Maher's The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom. He delivered the John Locke ... Read more
Reviews for Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality
Just as Kant managed to recast a good bit of the history of philosophy as a struggle between rationalism and empiricism (thus leading to his synthesis of the two), Brandom has recast a substantial portion of modern philosophy as a struggle over the consequences of inferentialist approaches. The way he shows that there is a coherent line to he traced ... Read more