Between «knowing how» and «knowing that»: Brandom on semantic pragmatism

Abstract

Robert Brandom in his book on pragmatism discusses the possibility of a «synthesis» of Anglo-American analytic and pragmatic traditions in philosophy. He puts forth the task of overcoming the dichotomy between practice and theory, pragmatics and semantics, «knowing how» and «knowing that». According to Brandom, different types of American pragmatism («linguistic», «semantic», «normative», «instrumental», etc.) solve this problem in different ways.