Professor Paul Redding from the University of Sydney will give the Macquarie Philosophy Seminar Friday 11th October 1-3pm in W6A 127. All welcome.
"An Idealist Solution to a Pragmatist Problem". In his ambitious project of an “analytic pragmatism” Robert Brandom has attempted to integrate ideas not only from the traditions of analytic philosophy and pragmatism but also from Hegel’s form of idealism. One particular aspect of his approach that has attracted criticism concerns his treatment of perceptual knowledge, a treatment that is broadly based, like that of his approach to pragmatism as a whole, on the work of Wilfrid Sellars. In this paper I suggest that a key to finding a way around these problems may lie in aspects of Hegel’s approach to perceptual judgment that is at variance with Brandom's approach. These aspects are important in understanding the nature of Hegel’s idealism, and its relation to that of Kant.
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