ABSTRACT
Robert Brandom’s reading of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is enlightening for letting us see the importance and significance of Hegel’s views in the context of contemporary analytical philosophy. The first aspect is Brandom’s semantic understanding of the “conceptual”. The second aspect is the attention paid to the joint action of normative and descriptive components, which is typical of Hegel’s conceptual language. The third aspect is what the author would call a logical upshot of Brandom’s understanding of the conceptual. If there is one aspect of Brandom’s views that needs to be made more explicit, it concerns Hegel’s concept of truth, and more specifically the typically Hegelian connection between truth and contradiction. Brandom suggests that the dynamic account of the conceptual implies the necessity to think about truth in new terms, the necessity of “reconstructing truth.”.
