Between Saying and Doing Towards an Analytic Pragmatism [Hardcover]

Between Saying and Doingaims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates the relations between themeaningof linguistic expressions and theiruse. Giving due weight both to what one has todoin order to count assayingvarious things and to what one needs tosayin order to specify thosedoings, makes it possible to shed new light on the relations betweensemantics(the theory of the meanings `f utterances and the contents of thoughts) andpragmatics(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 ideas of artificial intelligence, the nature of logic, and intentional relations between subjects and objects.

Lecture One: Extending the Project of Analysis
Lecture Two: Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic
Appendix to Lecture Two
Lecture Three: Artificial Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism
Lecture Four: Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars
Lecture Five: Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic
Appendix to Lecture Five
Lecture Six: Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation
Afterword

Between Saying and Doingis an enriching, enlivening book. This is the work of a generous philosopher at the height of his powers stretching readers to the height of theirs. --Times Literary Supplement

Robert Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Scienló<