This book presents and develops inferential expressivism, a novel approach to the study of
meaning which combines elements of the expressivist and inferentialist programmes …

This volume explores linguistic reference. Reference is a two-place relation. One relata
refers, the other (the referent) is referred to. Candidate referring items include, among others …

Indexicality is a special kind of context-dependence. The first-person pronoun I, a
paradigmatic indexical, refers to different people in different contexts, depending on who is …

This chapter provides a general overview of the issues surrounding semantic monsters. It
outlines the basics of Kaplan's framework and spells out how and why the topic of …

This thesis elaborates a framework, P-HYPE, in which to capture fine-grained,
hyperintensional'distinctions in meaning and in which to model the compositional sub …

Generality relativism is the view that any domain of quantification can always be expanded.
The view promises to resolve a broad range of paradoxes, but, without an explanation of …

There are several semantic accounts of context-sensitive expressions. Broadly, while
contextualism claims that a context-sensitive expression's interpretation is sensitive to some …

It is a consequence of both Kennedy and McNally's (Language 2: 345–381, 2005) typology
of the scale structures of gradable adjectives and Kennedy's (Linguist Philos 30 (1): 1–45 …

Complex demonstratives have been among the concerns of philosophers and linguists
since the first theories of reference were developed. Expressions like “this cat”,“that …

My dissertation combines work in the history of analytic philosophy with contributions to
contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of language. I argue for a new view about the …