A central part of philosophy is the reading of books, and the attempt to understand these books. This can be tricky business. Often philosophical books are old, vague, odd, complicated, hung-up on by-gone issues, or not directly speaking to the question you are concerned with. In the work of contemporary philosopher Robert Brandom I have [...]
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