Conceptual Realism and Historicity: Brandom Versus Hegel

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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction—The Divide and Brandom’s Interpretation of Hegel
Chapter 2 Brandom’s Conceptual Realism and Two Interpretations of Hegel
	1 From Hegel to Analytic Philosophy to Pragmatic Contextualism
		1.1 The Creation Myth of Analytic Philosophy—The Rejection of Hegel
		1.2 The Problem of the External World in Analytic Philosophy
		1.3 The Neo-pragmatic Turn and Sellars’ Linguistic Rationalism
		1.4 Rorty’s Skepticism and Brandom
		1.5 Conclusions on the Birth of Analytic Philosophy from the Spirit of Hegel
	2 Brandom’s Pragmatic Semantics and Its Relation to Realism
		2.1 Mind-External Realism and Inferentialism
		2.2 Procedural Realism and Assertion
		2.3 Proof of Objectivity—Towards Mind-External Reality
	3 Brandom and History
	4 Brandom’s A Spirit of Trust and Conceptual Realism
		4.1 Brandom’s Conceptual Realism Applied to Hegel
			4.1.1 Conceptual Realism
			4.1.2 Brandom’s Hylomorphism and ‘Implausible’ Idealism
			4.1.3 Brandom’s Standard of Philosophy—Experiencing Error and Experiencing Reality
		4.2 The Normative Side
		4.3 The Historical Progression—The Advent of a Better Society
Chapter 3 Transition—Habermas’ Contextualism, Brandom’s Realism and Hegel’s Historicity
	1 Differences between Habermas’ and Brandom’s Account
		1.1 Pragmatics and Semantics—Two Incompatible Approaches in Brandom?
		1.2 Anaphora as an Anchor in Reality
		1.3 Brandom’s Leveling of Facts and Norms
	2 Habermas and Hegel
		2.1 Hegel’s Denial of Mentalism
		2.2 Habermas’ Critique of Hegel’s Concept of Self-Consciousness
Chapter 4 Hegel’s Historical Relativism
	1 Logic and History
		1.1 The Historicity of the Science of Logic
		1.2 Hegel and the Concept of History
	2 Hegel’s Phenomenology
		2.1 Ordinary Phenomenologies in Relation to Essentialism and Foundationalism
		2.2 Kant’s Foundationalism and the Hegelian Rejection
		2.3 Hegel’s Account of Self-Consciousness and His Epistemology
	3 Absolute Knowing in Relation to History and Time
		3.1 Hegel as a Thinker of World History and Absolute Knowing
		3.2 The Formal Absolute
	4 The Achievement of Absolute Knowing
		4.1 The Exposition of the Problem of Spirit
		4.2 The Unification of Consciousness with Self-Consciousness
		4.3 The Unification of Consciousness with Self-Consciousness through the Concept
		4.4 Absolute Knowing and Human History
		4.5 The Contradiction of Time and a Science of Experience
		4.6 Externalizations of Spirit—Time and History
			4.6.1 Definition of Time
			4.6.2 Definition of Nature and History
			4.6.3 Hegel’s Solution of Absolute Knowing
Chapter 5 Conclusion on Brandom’s Conceptual Realism and Hegel’s Historicity
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