Between old and new: Brandom’s analytic pragmatism

1 Introduction Robert Brandom's follow-up to the monumental Making it Explicit 1 —in anticipation of which many have waited with baited breath—has finally appeared. Between Saying and Doing 2 is the text of his John Locke Lectures, delivered at the University of Oxford in 2006. Although Brandom is keen to insist that the two enterprises the books contain 'are largely orthogonal', many of the prominent themes in the most recent work will be familiar to readers of the earlier, including the connection between meaning and use, the expressive role of logic, the normative notions of commitment and entitlement, and the relation between the implicit and the explicit. Nonetheless, each is reframed here in the light of an ostensibly 'new metatheoretic conceptual apparatus' (p. 1), and it is the primary aim of the book to outline and demonstrate the utility of that apparatus, rather than argue for any specific thesis (although Brandom