Where to start with Robert Brandom?

I would recommend Articulating Reasons, because it's his (short!) introduction to inferentialism and gives you a good handle on some core ideas of both Making It Explicit and A Spirit of Trust, but I have not encountered much speculation about religion, maybe none, in those books. He has others which I haven't read.

I'm sure a creative philosophical mind could come up with plenty of essays relating Brandom's ideas to philosophical issues regarding religion, but Brandom himself does not seem to be especially concerned to do so, and I don't know that he's stirring up much controversy in those circles.

Brandom is a philosopher of the norms and activity of rationality (rationality in a broad sense, which he identifies with the generic capacity for both judgment and corresponding action). His project is to account for those norms and capacities in a certain way. It has a sort of behaviorist aspect to it combined with inferentialism about conceptual content.

Oh, maybe I thought of something (half-seriously): the Euthyphro dilemma, is the pious pious because the gods love it? Or do the gods love it because it is the pious? Say it's the latter so that the pious is independent of the gods. How did it get to be the pious? I guess Brandom has a story about how we socially generate certain norms and statuses. But he tends not to discuss morality. Not really sure how you'd fill in the details.

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