Between saying and doing : towards an analytic pragmatism / Robert B. Brandom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandom, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xxi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Between saying & doing

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

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 interrelated 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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [236]-239) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199542871

0199542872

OCLC:

190875125