Semantics, metasemantics, aboutness / Ori Simchen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simchen, Ori, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Semantics (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 159 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Semantics describes the significance of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place. Ori Simchen presents the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Metasemantics and Semantic Ascent

1.1. Introductory Remarks

1.2. Lewisian Reference Magnetism

1.3. "Just More Metasemantic Theory"

1.4. Metasemantic Explanation I

1.5. Metasemantic Explanation II

1.6. Reference Magnetism Again

1.7. Metasemantics and Reduction

Appendix I Lewisian Metasemantics

2. Case of Singular Reference

2.1. Introductory Remarks

2.2. Interpretationism and Singular Reference

2.3. Scrambled-Truth-in-a-Model

2.4. Interpretationist Replies I

2.5. Interpretationist Replies II

2.6. Productivism Redux

2.7. Concluding Remarks

Appendix II Scrambled Truth

Appendix III Reference to Numbers

3. Aboutness and Semantic Value

3.1. Introductory Remarks

3.2. Native Judgments of Aboutness

3.3. Two Takes on Denotations

3.4. Better Option

3.5. Metasemantics and Intuitive Aboutness

3.6. Taking Stock

4. Case Study I: Productivism and Self-Reference

4.1. Introductory Remarks

4.2. Conferred-Self-Denotation: the Godel Sentence

4.3. "Never mind"

4.4. Produced-Self-Reference: RTR

4.5. Produced-Self-Satisfaction: DTR

4.6. Concluding Remarks

5. Case Study II: Metasemantics and Interpretation

5.1. Introductory Remarks

5.2. Textualism and Metasemantic Interpretationism I

5.3. Textualism and Metasemantic Interpretationism II

5.4. Dworkin vs. Scalia I

5.5. Dworkin vs. Scalia II

5.6. Dworkinian Interpretation

5.7. Textualism and Metasemantic Productivism

6. Conclusion: Semantic Determinacy

6.1. Semantic Indeterminacy

6.2. Attempted Semantic Rebuttal

6.3. From the Semantics of Types to the Metaphysics of Tokens

6.4. Shift to Metasemantics

6.5. Productivism to the Rescue.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-250999-3

0-19-183780-6

0-19-250998-5