The aim of the paper is to analyse Brandom’s account of Hegel’s
conception of determinate negation and the role this structure plays in the
dialectical process with respect to the problem of contradiction. After having
shown both the merits and the limits of Brandom’s account, I will refer to
Priest’s dialetheistic approach to contradiction as an alternative contemporary
perspective from which it is possible to capture essential features of Hegel’s
notion of contradiction, and I will test the equation of Hegel’s dialectic with
Priest dialetheism
