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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandom, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatism.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 251 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Between saying & doing

Towards an analytic pragmatism

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism with analytic philosophy. Robert Brandom investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions (logical, indexical, modal, normative, and intentional, among others) and their use. He offers new ways of thinking about empiricism, naturalism, and functionalism. - ;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

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

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ISBN:

0-19-161505-6

0-19-958554-7

1-281-51524-8

9786611515249

0-19-156226-2

OCLC:

437092761