| Description | | - Ambitious original work from one of the most widely discussed philosophers of today
- Brings together the two main streams in which English-language philosophy flows
- Ranges widely over central topics in philosophy
- Controversial and stimulating
| | 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 ideas of artificial intelligence, the nature of logic, and intentional relations between subjects and objects.
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Readership: Advanced students and scholars of philosophy
| Contents |
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
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Robert B. Brandom, University of Pittsburgh
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