The Pittsburgh School sometimes described as analytic Hegelianism or Pittsburgh Hegelianism, is a philosophical movement mostly associated with the works of key philosophers such as Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell and Robert Brandom, at the University of Pittsburgh's department of philosophy, who developed a distinctive approach within analytic philosophy in the late 20th, and 21st century.
History Wilfrid Sellars viewed his work as moving analytic philosophy from its Humean (i.e. logical positivist) to its Kantian phase, and Richard Rorty suggested that Brandom's work continues that movement into its Hegelian phase. Especially Brandom's Hegelian variety of the Pittsburgh School, is often described as analytic Hegelianism.Robert Brandom, A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology, Harvard University Press, 2019. In the words of the Pittsburgh philosopher Willem deVries:
Themes Even though not primarily an ethical movement, but broadly put it attempts to reconcile scientific realism with robust accounts of normativity, social articulation of reasons and meaning, intelligible within the "space of reasons" as opposed to the "space of causes". The movement therefore can be understood as a neopragmatist and post-empiricist movement.
Figures
Wilfrid Sellars Willem deVries Michael Thompson (philosopher) John McDowell Robert Brandom Matthew Boyle Nuel Belnap
Literature
See also
Center for Philosophy of Science
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