Metasemantics : new essays on the foundations of meaning / edited by Alexis Burgess and Brett Sherman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burgess, Alexis, 1980- editor.

Sherman, Brett, 1978- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 367 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

New essays on the foundations of meaning

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Metasemantics presents new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics. Experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content provide new perspectives on old problems about linguistic meaning, pose questions that suggest novel research projects, and sharpen our understanding of linguistic representation.

Contents:

Introduction: A plea for the metaphysics of meaning / Alexis Burgess and Brett Sherman

Semantics and metasemantics in the context of generative grammar / Seth Yalcin

Metasemantics and metaphysical indeterminacy / Michael Caie

The metasemantics of contextual sensitivity / Jeffrey C. King

Semantic hermeneutics / Alejandro Pérez Carballo

Troubles for Content I / Mark Greenberg

Troubles for Content II: explaining grounding / Mark Greenberg

Deflationism in semantics and metaphysics / Amie L. Thomasson

Discourse content / Samuel Cumming

Do we need dynamic semantics? / Karen S. Lewis

Explanation and partiality in semantic theory / Michael Glanzberg

Replacing truth? / Matti Eklund

Prepragmatics: widening the semantics/pragmatics boundary / Isidora Stojanovic

Semantics and context-dependence: towards a Strawsonian account / Richard G. Heck Jr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 10, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-178431-1

OCLC:

904183700