Synopses & Reviews
Some of the most distinguished active contributors to the field join together for a collection of their most recent work.
Synopsis
Some of the most distinguished active contributors to the field join together for a collection of their most recent work.
- Brings together important new papers by many of the most distinguished philosophers of language
- Takes up some of the central issues in the field in recent years
- Includes some of the best cutting-edge work in philosophy of language
About the Author
Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, distinguished philosopher, author of Knowledge in Perspective, co-author of Epistemic Justification, subject of Ernest Sosa and His Critics.
Table of Contents
1. Things and Their Aspects: NICHOLAS ASHER.
2. Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is: DAVID BRAUN.
3. Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs and Expressions: HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNIE LEPORE.
4. Descriptions with Adverbs of Quantification: DELIA GRAFF FARA.
5. MacFarlane on Relative Truth: RICHARD G. HECK, JR.
6. Sententialism: The Thesis that Complement Clauses Refer to Themselves: JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM.
7. Soames on Descriptive Reference-Fixing: ROBIN JESHION.
8. Singular Terms, Reference and Methodology in Semantics: JEFFREY C. KING.
9. From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction: PETER LUDLOW.
10. The Meaning of “Water”: An Unsolved Problem: WILLIAM G. LYCAN.
11. “Knowledge of Language and Linguistic Competence”: ROBERT J. MATTHEWS.
12. Interpreting Concatenation and Concatenates: PAUL M. PIETROSKI.
13. Understanding as Immersion: R. M. SAINSBURY.
14. Terms in Bondage: NATHAN SALMON.
15. Two Perspectives on Knowledge of