Under what conditions are expressions of a language the same; when are they different?
Indices and Identity focuses on this question in the context of the theory of anaphora and on …

Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to
accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the …

If there exist such things as the things we mean, then those things are also the things we
believe, and the things in terms of which we must understand all semantic notions. If such …

" Theory of mind" is the phrase researchers use to refer to children's understanding of
people as mental beings, who have beliefs, desires, emotions, and intentions, and whose …

Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have
supposed, and explores how meanings are modulated (changed) even during the course of …

Kevin Scharp proposes an original theory of the nature and logic of truth on which truth is an
inconsistent concept that should be replaced for certain theoretical purposes. Replacing …

John Hawthorne and David Manley present an original treatment of the semantic
phenomenon of reference and the cognitive phenomenon of singular thought. In Part I, they …

Anything that deserves to be called a language must contain meaningful expressions built
up from other meaningful expressions. How are their complexity and meaning related? The …

Abstract The Principle of Semantic Compositionality (sometimes called 'Frege's Principle') is
the principle that the meaning of a (syntactically complex) whole is a function only of the …

Linguists (and others) have realised for some time that predicates of the'know'and'wonder'
classes behave differently, in semantic terms, with respect to their interrogative …