In the present ‘state of the art’ of analytical philosophy, its identity as a trend of thought has become somewhat fuzzy. The primacy of philosophy of language over other areas of philosophy has been shaken. At present, few authors maintain that language-based conceptual analysis is a privileged tool for doing philosophy. So it is difficult to tell what the relations of present-day analytical philosophy to the universe of pragmatics are going to be. One salient fact is that philosophy has been influenced by cognitive pragmatics, particularly Relevance Theory. Another salient fact is that several philosophers have recently focused attention on the role of context with respect to meaning, communication, and even the truth of assertions. However, it should be remembered that independently of their contextualist or anti-contextualist choices, philosophers in the analytical tradition still discuss such problems as reference, force, attitude attribution, interpersonal or cross-cultural understanding, all of which are at the same time objects of pragmatic research. This has led to fruitful encounters in the past and will most likely do so in the future as well.