Abstract
n this essay, I examine the roles of collaboration in the sciences and humanities by focusing on the complicated relationship between syntax and semantics. I use these two categories to contrast different modes of explanation. In very different register than I pursue, Charles Taylor describes these modes in thoughtful discussion of the work of Paul Ricoeur in narrative theory. One mode of explanation, which I associate in this essay with Enlightenment thought, is what Taylor calls or governed science. Nomological science, Taylor argues, concerns form of whereby the phenomenon to be explained is completely absorbed by the law or structure which constitutes its explanation (175). In this mode of explanation, any is explained by its subsumption by atemporal structures and laws that exist once and for all. Against this nomological schema-which is parallel, in my argument, to the abstract formalism of syntacticsTaylor posits a very different type of relation between structure and event whose paradigmatic example is that of langue-parole (176). A language, he writes,
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