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Zusatztext Their work is among the best by early-to-mid-career philosophers of language working today. Informationen zum Autor Alexis Burgess is an assistant professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He works mainly at the intersection of metaphysics and the philosophy of language. His articles have appeared in journals like Linguistics and Philosophy, Noûs, and The Australasian Journal of Philosophy. With John P. Burgess, he is co-author of Truth (Princeton University Press).; Brett Sherman is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Rochester. His research centers on problems in the philosophy of language and epistemology. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: A Plea for the Metaphysics of Meaning 1: Seth Yalcin: Semantics and Metasemantics in the Context of Generative Grammar 2: Michael Caie: Metasemantics and Metaphysical Indeterminacy 3: Jeffrey C. King: The Metasemantics of Contextual-Sensitivity 4: Alejandro Pérez Carballo: Semantic Hermeneutics 5: Mark Greenberg: Troubles for Content I 6: Mark Greenberg: Troubles for Content II: Explaining Grounding 7: Amie L. Thomasson: Deflationism in Semantics and Metaphysics 8: Sam Cumming: Discourse Content 9: Karen S. Lewis: Do We Need Dynamic Semantics? 10: Michael Glanzberg: Explanation and Partiality in Semantic Theory 11: Matti Eklund: Replacing Truth? 12: Isidora Stojanovic: Prepragmatics: Widening the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary 13: Richard G. Heck, Jr.: Semantics and Context-Dependence: Towards a Strawsonian Account ...
