Between Saying and Doing

Towards an Analytic Pragmatism
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-958554-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

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 ist classical American and ist 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.

Zielgruppe

Advanced students and scholars of philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brandom, Robert B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Brandom, Robert B.
Robert B. Brandom, University of Pittsburgh