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To all Philosophy teachers,
You are cordially invited to attend this year’s Spinoza Lectures on Thursday 22 and 29 April, held online by Prof. Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Robert Brandom is the holder of the Spinoza Chair at our Department of Philosophy during the second term of the academic year 2020-2021. He will be delivering two Spinoza Lectures under the title of Fetishism, Anti-Authoritarianism, and the Second Enlightenment: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality.
Both lectures will take place online via Zoom. You can register now; you will receive the link to the Zoom meeting a couple of days in advance. |
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Spinoza Chair University of Amsterdam |
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Since 1995, the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam has annually appointed a foreign philosopher to the Spinoza chair. As part of the appointment, the Spinoza professor gives a number of lectures intended for a broad audience that wants to stay informed about contemporary developments in philosophy. |
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About Robert Brandom |
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Robert Brandom is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has taught since 1976. Brandom is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Award from the Mellon Foundation and the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis from the Humboldt Stiftung. He has delivered the John Locke lectures at Oxford University, the Hempel lectures at Princeton, the Townsend and Howison lectures at Berkeley, the Aquinas lecture at Marquette, and the Brentano lectures in Vienna, among others.
Brandom is the author of 15 books, which have been translated into many languages. Among them are Making It Explicit (Harvard, 1994), Between Saying and Doing (Oxford, 2008), and A Spirit of Trust (Harvard, 2019). He is also the author of more than one hundred articles on a wide range of philosophical topics, most of which may be freely downloaded from his website. |
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