This is the second part of a two‐part article on compositionality, ie the principle that the
meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meanings of its parts and the way …

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of
compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts …

Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic thinkers. He developed a
systematic picture of the human mind and its relation to the world, an original and sustained …

Starting from the familiar observation that no straightforward treatment of pure quotation can
be compositional in the standard (homomorphism) sense, we introduce general …

Epistemic two-dimensional semantics is a theory in the philosophy of language that provides
an account of meaning which is sensitive to the distinction between necessity and apriority …

This article focuses on the relevance of computational complexity for cognition. The syntactic
items may be expressions that are surface strings. But in general, strings are syntactically …

Natural kind terms have exercised philosophical fancy ever since Kripke, in Naming and
Necessity, claimed them to be rigid designators. He there drew attention to the peculiar …

Whether perceptual experience has content has been a question of lively debate for the last
decade or so. One way of construing the question is whether perceptual experiences are …

This paper discusses some recent responses to Kripke's modal objections to descriptivism
about names. One response, due to Gluer-Pagin and Pagin, involves employing “actually” …

The traditional problem, the problem discussed in the literature on intentional identity,
concerns the logical form of sentences like (1). It is supposed that (1) can be true even if …