Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism
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...
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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 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.
Preface xiAcknowledgements xxiiiList of Abbreviations xxiv1 Extending the Project of Analysis 12 Elaborating Abilities: The Expressive Role of Logic 313 Artifical Intelligence and Analytic Pragmatism 694 Modality and Normativity: From Hume and Quine to Kant and Sellars 925 Incompatibility, Modal Semantics, and Intrinsic Logic 1176 Intentionality as a Pragmatically Mediated Semantic Relation 176Afterword: Philosophical Analysis and Analytic Philosophy 201Bibliography 236Subject Index 241Name Index 250
