Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

Between Saying And Doing Aims To Reconcile Pragmatism (in Both Its Classical American And Its Wittgensteinian Forms) With Analytic Philosophy. It Investigates The Relations Between The Meaning Of Linguistic Expressions And Their Use. Giving Due Weight Both To What One Has To Do In Order To Count As Saying Various Things And To What One Needs To Say In Order To Specify Those Doings, Makes It Possible To Shed New Light On The Relations Between Semantics (the Theory Of The Meanings Of Utterances And The Contents Of Thoughts) And Pragmatics (the Theory Of The Functional Relations Among Meaningful Or Contentful Items). Among The Vocabularies Whose Interrelate Use And Meaning Are Considered Are: Logical, Indexical, Modal, Normative, And Intentional Vocabulary. As The Argument Proceeds, New Ways Of Thinking About The Classic Analytic Core Programs Of Empiricism, Naturalism, And Functionalism Are Offered, As Well As Novel Insights About The Idea Of Artificial Intelligence, The Nature Of Logic, And Intentional Relations Between Subjects And Objects.--book Jacket. Extending The Project Of Analysis -- Elaborating Abilities : The Expressive Role Of Logic -- Artificial Intelligence And Analytic Pragmatism -- Modality And Normativity : From Hume And Quine To Kant And Sellars -- Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, And Intrinsic Logic -- Intentionality As A Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation -- Afterword : Philosophical Analysis And Analytic Philosophy. Robert B. Brandom. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [236]-239) And Indexes.