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Analysis, doi:10.1093/analys/anp147
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Inhabiting the Space of Reasoning

Jeremy Wanderer

University of Cape Town Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town South Africa jeremy.wanderer@uct.ac.za

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Recent accounts of differing contemporary approaches to mind and language portray them as engaged in a kind of ‘Homeric struggle’ between two warring camps, neo-Cartesian and neo-Pragmatist.1 One central battlefront concerns the potential autonomy of semantics from pragmatics. To say that semantics is potentially autonomous from pragmatics is to allow that there can be a semantic theory that makes no potential contribution to pragmatic theory. Neo-Cartesians affirm, whilst neo-Pragmatists deny, the potential autonomy of semantics from pragmatics. A ‘Homeric struggle calls for heroes’; heroes in the neo-Pragmatist camp are said to include Dummett, Brandom, Rorty, McDowell, Davidson and (possibly) Sellars, whilst heroes in the neo-Cartesian camp are said to include Dretske, Fodor and Lepore. Here we have a basic divide in contemporary philosophy of language, one that John Macfarlane has dubbed as ‘perhaps the most significant divide of all’.2

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