'Here' is the tip of the iceberg – indexicals, generalised location, and metaphysics

I begin with some recent remarks of Brandom's on indexicals, remarks intended to illustrate how we can be misled by a "representationalist paradigm" into asking inappropriate metaphysical questions, rather than questions about the use of certain forms of language. I argue that the lessons that Brandom and others see as obvious in the indexical case may apply much more widely, with the same broadly anti-metaphysical consequences; and that Brandom himself should certainly take this to be the case. On this view, indexicals are merely the visible tip of an iceberg that threatens much work in contemporary metaphysics.