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121Indexical Color Predicates: Truth Conditional Semantics vs. Truth Conditional PragmaticsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 42 (2): 71-100. 2012.Truth conditional semantics is the project of ‘determining a way of assigning truth conditions to sentences based on A) the extension of their constituents and B) their syntactic mode of combination’. This research program has been subject to objections that take the form of underdetermination arguments, an influential instance of which is presented by Travis: … consider the words ‘The leaf is green,’ speaking of a given leaf, and its condition at a given time, used so as to mean what they do me…Read more
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97The problem of negative existentials does not exist: A case for dynamic semanticsJournal of Pragmatics 41 (7): 1422-1434. 2009.The problem of negative existentials arises because utterances of such sentences have the paradoxical feature of denying what they presuppose, thus undermining their own truth. There are only two general strategies for solving the problem within the constraints traditional static semantics, and both strategies attempt to explain away this paradoxical feature. I argue that both strategies are fundamentally flawed, and that an adequate account of negative existentials must countenance, and not exp…Read more
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85'Obviously propositions are nothing': Russell and the logical form of belief reportsIn Georg Peter & Gerhard Preyer (eds.), Logical Form and Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 409--420. 2002.
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59A Non‐Alethic Approach to Faultless DisagreementDialectica 69 (4): 517-550. 2015.This paper motivates and describes a non-alethic approach to faultless disagreement involving predicates of personal taste. In section 1 I describe problems faced by Sundell's indexicalist approach, and MacFarlane's relativist approach. In section 2 I develop an alternative, non-alethic, approach. The non-alethic approach is broadly expressivist in that it endorses both the negative semantic thesis that simple sentences containing PPTs do not semantically encode complete propositions and the pos…Read more
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