Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism

Author: Robert B. Brandom
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Pages: 288
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ISBN: 0199542872
Dewey Decimal Number: 121.68
EAN: 9780199542871
ASIN: 0199542872

Publication Date: June 15, 2008
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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 `f 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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Carrying Coals to Newcastle Via A Rube Goldberg Contraption September 20, 2008
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As far as I can tell and I browsed through this book, this book is extremely obscure, is that Brandom is arguing that one should make reasoned arguments in light of normative committments. Basically Brandom apparently told a large audience of philosphers at Oxford that reasoned arguments are the way to go. Brandom deploys automata theory to back up this viewpoint.