based at the University of Pittsburgh. Brandom is one of the most influential contemporary pragmatists, whose work in semantics and the philosophy of language developed out of the tradition of Richard Rorty and Wilfrid Sellars. His work revolves around the idea that meaning is not to be understood in terms of representation and truth, but instead in terms of the social, and normative practices associated with undertaking commitments and following patterns of inference (see inferential role semantics). Brandom’s wide interests include the history of philosophy, and especially the work of G. W. F. Hegel. His books include Making it Explicit (1994), Articulating Reasons (2000), Tales of the Mighty Dead (2002), and Between Saying and Doing (2008), which contains the John Locke lectures delivered in Oxford in 2006. See pragmatism.