Synopses & Reviews
This collection of original essays by leading philosophers of language addresses the most hotly debated issues in the field today. The essays are organized by theme: the nature of truth, the relation between truth and meaning, the semantic nature of quantifiers or the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. This volume, the first in the new series Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, represents expert opinion at the forefront of studies in the philosophy of language.
Table of Contents
Seemingly semantic intuitions / Kent Bach -- The semantic basis of externalism / Michael McKinsey -- Acquaintanceless de re belief / Robin Jeshion -- Meanings / Stephen Schiffer -- Mythical objects / Nathan Salmon -- Truth and identity / Marian David -- What is the role of a truth theory in a meaning theory? / Kirk Ludwig -- A new argument against modesty / Jonathan Sutton -- Truth and meaning / Robert Cummins -- Insensitive quantifiers / Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore -- Deferred demonstratives / Emma Borg -- What unarticulated constituents could not be / Lenny Clapp -- Generalized conversational implicatures and default pragmatic / Anne Bezuidenhout -- Distinguishing semantics and pragmatics / Kent Bach and Anne Bezuidenhout.