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Author(s): Ori Simchen

ISBN(s): 9780198792147, 019879214X

Edition: 1

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Year: 2017

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 019879214X

ISBN 13: 9780198792147

Author: Ori Simchen

Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place – what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.

Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness 1st Table of contents:

1. Metasemantics and Semantic Ascent
1.1 Introductory Remarks
1.2 Lewisian Reference Magnetism
1.3 “Just More Metasemantic Theory”
1.4 Metasemantic Explanation I
1.5 Metasemantic Explanation II
1.6 Reference Magnetism Again
1.7 Metasemantics and Reduction
Appendix I: Lewisian Metasemantics
2. The Case of Singular Reference
2.1 Introductory Remarks
2.2 Interpretationism and Singular Reference
2.3 Scrambled-Truth-in-a-Model
2.4 Interpretationist Replies I
2.5 Interpretationist Replies II
2.6 Productivism Redux
2.7 Concluding Remarks
Appendix II: Scrambled Truth
Appendix III: Reference to Numbers
3. Aboutness and Semantic Value
3.1 Introductory Remarks
3.2 Native Judgments of Aboutness
3.3 Two Takes on Denotations
3.4 A Better Option
3.5 Metasemantics and Intuitive Aboutness
3.6 Taking Stock
4. Case Study I: Productivism and Self-Reference
4.1 Introductory Remarks
4.2 Conferred-Self-Denotation: the Gödel Sentence
4.3 “Never mind”
4.4 Produced-Self-Reference: RTR
4.5 Produced-Self-Satisfaction: DTR
4.6 Concluding Remarks
5. Case Study II: Metasemantics and Interpretation
5.1 Introductory Remarks
5.2 Textualism and Metasemantic Interpretationism I
5.3 Textualism and Metasemantic Interpretationism II
5.4 Dworkin vs. Scalia I
5.5 Dworkin vs. Scalia II
5.6 Dworkinian Interpretation
5.7 Textualism and Metasemantic Productivism
6. Conclusion: Semantic Determinacy
6.1 Semantic Indeterminacy
6.2 An Attempted Semantic Rebuttal
6.3 From the Semantics of Types to the Metaphysics of Tokens
6.4 The Shift to Metasemantics
6.5 Productivism to the Rescue