Robert Brandom: Kant as “the great grey mother of us all”

University of Pittsburgh philosophy professor Robert Brandom:

“I want to start going back and looking at the roots of American pragmatism in the German Idealist tradition. I think developments over the last four decades have secured Immanuel Kant’s status as being for contemporary philosophers what the sea was for the poet Swinburne: ‘the great grey mother of us all.’ And Kant mattered as much for the classical American Pragmatists as he does for us today.”

From this lecture (via Quee Nelson):

Related: My other posts on Immanuel Kant‘s epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics.

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