Representation or Inference:

Representation or Inference: Must We Choose? Should We? In his monumental 1994 work Making It Explicit, 1 Robert Brandom announces a revolution in the philosophy of language. Brandom in some ways self-consciously models his revolution on Kant‟s famous “Copernican revolution” in the Critique of Pure Reason 2 – so much so that a clever parody posted for some time in the University of Pittsburgh philosophy department superimposed Brandom‟s title on the well-known cover of the Norman Kemp Smith edition of the first Critique. 3 With the publication in 2000 of Articulating Reasons, 4 Brandom‟s shorter guide to his philosophical program, we need only await the appearance of a B-edition of Making It Explicit to complete the parallel. 5