Introduction

Robert Brandom was born in New York in 1950. He completed undergraduate studies at Yale, and wrote his doctoral thesis at Princeton University under the direction of Richard Rorty. He is currently the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has been a member of the philosophy faculty since 1976. Brandom is the author of four books, most notably Making It Explicit (henceforth MIE), and recently delivered the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford, entitled “Between Saying and Doing” (BSD). This book aims to provide a lucid introduction to Brandom’s philosophy to date.