Robert Brandom is a contemporary American philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh. He works primarily in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophical logic. Brandom's work is heavily influenced by that of Wilfrid Sellars, Richard Rorty, Michael Dummett and John McDowell. He also draws heavily on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and of G. W. F. Hegel. He is most-known for an ongoing project to recast philosophy of language in an inferentialist mode (see Inferential role semantics), vs. Representationalist view of Semantics; loosely, to carry out the Wittgensteinian task of explaining meaning--the contents of words and mental states --in terms of use. His influential 1994 book, Making it Explicit, laid out this project, which was summed up in (2000) "Articulating Reasons. An Introduction to Inferentialism". Brandom has also written (2002) "Tales of the Mighty Dead", a critical and historical sketch of the so-called "philosophy of intentionality". He is the editor of a collection of papers about Rorty's philosophy, (2000, ed. ) "Rorty and His Critics".