Pragmatics and Semantics

Many of the current philosophical theories of pragmatics concentrate on semantics. For instance, Brandom focuses on linguistic meaning (albeit from a pragmatist perspective).

Others choose an approach that is more holistic to pragmatics, like relevance theory, which aims to determine how an utterance is understood by the hearer. This view tends to ignore other elements of pragmatics, such as epistemic discussions about truth.

What is pragmatism, exactly?

Pragmatism provides a different perspective to continental philosophy and analytic philosophy. Charles Sanders Peirce initiated it and William James extended it. Later, Josiah Royce developed the philosophy. It had a profound influence on the areas of inquiry ranging from theology and philosophy to philosophy of science, but also on ethics as well as philosophy of politics and language. The pragmatist tradition continues to grow.

The underlying principle of classical pragmatism is the pragmatic maxim, a principle to clarify the significance of hypotheses by tracing their 'practical consequences that they have for specific situations. This leads to a distinct epistemological perspective that is a form of 'inquiry epistemology based on inquiry' and an anti Cartesian explanation of the norms governing inquiry. The early pragmatists largely split over the question of whether pragmatism can think of itself as a philosophy of science that adopts a monism about truth (following Peirce), or a broad-based alethic pluralism (James and Dewey).

One of the major concerns for philosophers who are pragmatists is understanding knowledge. Rorty is one pragmatist who is skeptical of any notions of knowledge that are built on "immediate experiences". Others, such as Peirce and James, are sceptical of the correspondence theory of truth that holds that the most authentic beliefs are those that reflect reality in a 'correct' way.

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