‘A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel’s Phenomenology’ by Robert Brandom Reviewed by J. D. Evans

For Brandom, Hegel was trying to deal with two connected problems. The first comes from the skeptical argument that we cannot have genuine knowledge. Kant had shown that we can have knowledge of the phenomenal world, in the combination of the sensuous manifold and concepts. Straw-yellowness, ambrosiality, viscosity, coldness and so on all come toge

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