Heroism and Magnanimity

Robert Brandom is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has given the John Locke lectures at Oxford, the Hempel lectures at Princeton, the Howison and Townsend lectures at Berkeley, a William James lecture at Harvard, and the Woodbridge lectures at Columbia. He has held fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and at All Souls College Oxford, and was Leibniz Professor at the University of Leipzig. In 2004 he received the Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and in 2015 the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.