ABSTRACT
Do we ever make progress in answering philosophical questions? If we narrow our focus to the philosophy of language it is apparent that we do. Even acknowledging the difficulties in measuring such things, it’s clear that more progress has been made in the last century or so than was made in any previous century, and moreover that there is reason to expect-if the present culture of training and research can endure-that our students will be able to do a better job than we.
