Pre‑Print – to be published in Malpas, J. and Gander, H.‑G., The Routledge Companion to Hermenutics, Routledge, 2014 ‑ Please quote from published version Brandom and McDowell: Hermeneutics and Normativity Glenda Satne Robert Brandom (1950‑) and John McDowell (1942‑) represent – along with Wilfrid Sellars ‑ what has been sometimes vaguely called “the Pittsburgh School” (Maher 2012). Even if speaking of a school may be an overstatement, there are indeed several common themes to these philosophers who developed most of their careers at the University of Pittsburgh: the importance they place on the history of philosophy, and especially on Kantian and Post‑Kantian thought, usually ignored in contemporary analytic philosophy; the attack on what Sellars called the Myth of the Given; the importance of human practices as a starting point for philosophical reflection, among others. But perhaps the most important idea that they share is the idea that normativity is an essential trait of human thought and that properly accounting for it is a paramount task for philosophy. The way in which they approach normativity and to what extent such approach is properly hermeneutical will be the topic of this chapter. Normativity and the Space of Reasons Kant famously argued that humans are citizens of two worlds: the world of nature and the world of freedom. Humans are part of the natural world but, at