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TITLE REMOVED FOR PEER REVIEW - About the puzzle of copredication, the quest to find plausible semantic values for sentences like The book will weigh five pounds if it's ever published, where the predicates appear to apply to different things (e.g. a copy of a book will weigh five pounds but some ). In particular, I consider sentences involving numerical quantifiers like Three books are on the shelf.
TITLE REMOVED FOR PEER REVIEW - Also about the puzzle of copredication. In particular, I consider some novel inference-data.
TITLE REMOVED FOR PEER REVIEW - About whether liar-sentences make for an objection to truth-conditional semantics, as some Chomskyan philosophers of langauge have recently argued. We say no.
The Liar Paradox as Presupposition Failure (joint with Kenneth Black) - we argue on the basis of sentences like `The Bible is true' that natural-language true and other aletheic predicates applies not to sentences or propositions but to objects first and foremost to objects. We then sketch a new semantics for `true' where it's a presupposition trigger, and explain how it diagnoses liar sentences suffering as suffering from presupposition failure whilst avoiding typical revenge paradoxes. We conclude by suggesting that the problematic notion underpinning the paradox is not truth as such, but of an entity's possessing content, echoing recent work by Bacon and Goodman.
In Preparation
A project about the relationship between retraction/deniability and semantic content.
A project about the metaphysics of repeatable artworks.