Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

by Robert B. Brandom

Overview

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.

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ISBN-13:	9780191615054
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	04/08/2010
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About the Author

Robert Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His interests centre on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of logic. He has published more than 50 articles on these and related areas.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Acknowledgements xxiii

List of Abbreviations xxiv

1 Extending the Project of Analysis 1

2 Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic 31

3 Artifical Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism 69

4 Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars 92

5 Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic 117

6 Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation 176

Afterword: Philosophical Analysis and Analytic Philosophy 201

Bibliography 236

Subject Index 241

Name Index 250

Editorial Reviews

"Between Saying and Doing is 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

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