Tales of the Mighty Dead - Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality

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.

About the author

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. He delivered the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford and the Woodbridge Lectures at Columbia University. Brandom is the author of many books, including Making It Explicit, Reason in Philosophy, and From Empiricism to Expressivism (all from Harvard).

Product details

• Authors: Robert B. Brandom
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9780674009035
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00903-5
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 45 mm
• Weight: 834 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works