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.