WORK IN PROGRESS True in a Fiction and True in a Context The topic of this paper is accounting for the intuitive truth conditions of sentences about stories within fiction. The paper presents a bicontextual account, where sentence truth is defined relative to a context of utterance and a context of intention. We argue that other accounts fail to explain data about indexicals occurring in sentences about interactive fiction. Dynamic Incompatibility Semantics The topic of this paper is incompatibility semantics, that is a semantic framework based on inference and incompatibility as opposed to reference and truth. It argues that Brandom's (Between Saying and Doing) semantics is not supported by his (Making it Explicit) scorekeeping account of linguistic practice. As an alternative, we present a dynamic semantics that takes incompatibility as the core semantic property. Semantic Pluralism According to alethic minimalism, e.g. Wright (Truth & Objectivity) and Lynch (Truth as one and Many), the conceptual content of the truth predicate is exhaustively determined by a set of platitudes. However, minimalism is compatible with pluralism about truth, that different properties may be associated with truth in different discourses. This paper discusses a consequent Kaplan style semantics for someone adopting a "property-variant conditional" account of propositional content. Aestheticism When time allows it I am tinkering on a longer work on aestheticism. The core principle of aestheticism is that aesthetic values are fundamental and that the normativity of aesthetic judgements is not reducible to other kinds (such as moral or epistemic normativity). DISSERTATION Meaning Manifest: Problems and Prospects for Speech Act Conditional Semantics GENERAL AUDIENCE Against Philosophical Consolation (2011) The Consolations of Philosophy. Columbra Press. Review of Book |
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