“And I’ve been urging that Wittgenstein’s response to philosophical anxiety about meaningfulness uberhaupt contains nothing to encourage analytic aspirations for pragmatic metavocabularies.”
–John McDowell, “Brandom on Extending the Project of Analysis (with John McDowell)”
Yet one must ask if Wittgenstein’s language games and family resemblance constitute a “downtown” of sorts that would then give weight to Brandom’s notion of pragmatically mediated semantic relations.
STEVEN WEXLER 