Robert Brandom

American philosopher (b. 1950), known for inferentialism.

Key Contributions:

• Developed inferentialism in philosophy of language.
• Contributed to analytic philosophy.
• Influenced pragmatic semantics.

Interacting Concepts & Works:

• Making It Explicit (core text)
• Analytic Philosophy (methodology)
• Sellars (primary influence)
• Wittgenstein (shared linguistic focus)
• Logic (semantic theory)