ROBERT BRANDOM’S ANALYTIC PRAGMATISM

Robert Brandom’s Analytic Pragmatism offers a comprehensive and critical examination of one of the most ambitious projects in contemporary analytic philosophy. The book unfolds across nine chapters, beginning with an exploration of the relation between Making It Explicit and Between Saying and Doing, and continuing with a detailed analysis of the logic governing the relations between meaning and use, between vocabularies and the underlying practices or abilities that determine their semantic content. It examines the structure of universal LX vocabularies and incompatibility semantics, along with Brandom’s treatment of intentionality and pragmatic artificial intelligence. Both explanatory and evaluative, this study not only highlights the philosophical originality and internal tensions of analytic pragmatism but also proposes a new research direction: structuralist analytic pragmatism, which seeks invariant meaning-use results across different pragmatic vocabularies. Written in a rigorous style, Robert Brandom’s Analytic Pragmatism will engage readers interested in the future of analytic philosophy, the renewal of pragmatist methodology, and the enduring question of how meaning arises from use.