influenced era school_tradition influences main_interests notable_ideas name birth_date image article_title region
mark lance contemporary philosophy pragmatism , analytic wilfrid kant g.w.f. hegel richard rorty david kellogg lewis sellars michael dummett gottlob frege l. wittgenstein immanuel pragmatism logic philosophy of language philosophy of mind philosophy of inferentialism robert b. brandom march 13 , 1950 robert brandom.jpg robert brandom
 western philosophy
robert brandom

robert boyce brandom -lrb- born 1950 -rrb- is an american philosopher who teaches at the university of pittsburgh .
he works primarily in philosophy of language , philosophy of mind and philosophical logic , and his work manifests both systematic and historical interests in these topics .
his work has presented `` arguably the first fully systematic and technically rigorous attempt to explain the meaning of linguistic items in terms of their socially norm-governed use -lrb- ` meaning as use ' , to cite the wittgensteinian slogan -rrb- , thereby also giving a non-representationalist account of the intentionality of thought and the rationality of action as well . ''
brandom earned his b.a. from yale university and his ph.d. from princeton university , under richard rorty and david kellogg lewis .
brandom is broadly considered to be part of the american pragmatist tradition in philosophy .
