Individual objects have potentials: paper has the potential to burn, an acorn has the potential
to turn into a tree, some people have the potential to run a mile in less than four minutes …

This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a
linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics …

Some combinations of attitudes--of beliefs, credences, intentions, preferences, hopes, fears,
and so on--do not fit together right: they are incoherent. A natural idea is that there are …

What does it mean to know how to do something? This book develops a comprehensive
account of know-how, a crucial epistemic goal for all who care about getting things right, not …

Williamsonian modal epistemology (WME) is characterized by two commitments: realism
about modality, and anti-exceptionalism about our modal knowledge. Williamson's own …

How are sentences that express reason explanations related to sentences that express
rationalizing psychological explanations? How are sentences like 'Jane is going to the pub …

Are words like 'woman'or 'man'sex terms that we use to talk about biological features of
individuals? Are they gender terms that we use to talk about non-biological features eg …

In arguing against a supposed ambiguity, philosophers often rely on the zeugma test. In an
application of the zeugma test, a supposedly ambiguous expression is placed in a sentence …

Polysemy has only recently entered the debate on semantic minimalism and contextualism.
This is surprising considering that the key linguistic examples discussed in the debate, such …

Empirical evidence suggests that perceptual‐motor simulations are often constitutively
involved in language comprehension. Call this “the simulation view of language …