Date |
Topics |
Reading
green=optional
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| January 21, 3:00 |
Introduction to philosophical semantics + a brief history of the 20th century |
"Theories of meaning," from the SEP
Soames, "A century of work in the philosophy of language"
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| January 28, 3:25 |
Truth relative to worlds and times |
Kaplan, "Demonstratives"
Richard, "Temporalism and eternalism"
King, "Tense, modality, and semantic values"
Schaffer, "The schmentencite way out" |
| February 11, 3:25 |
Relativism: time and taste |
MacFarlane, "Future contingents and relative truth"
MacFarlane, "Making sense of relative truth"
MacFarlane, "Relativism and disagreement"
Hawthorne & Cappelen, Relativism and Monadic Truth, ch. 4
|
| February 25, 3:25 |
Epistemic modals I |
Egan, Hawthorne, & Weatherson, "Epistemic modals in context"
Hawthorne, "Eavesdroppers and epistemic modals"
von Fintel & Gillies, "CIA leaks" |
| March 25, 3:25 |
Epistemic modals II |
Yalcin, "Epistemic modals"
Barnett, "Yalcin on 'might'"
Yalcin,
"More on epistemic modals"
Swanson, "How not to theorize about the language of subjective uncertainty" |
| April 1, 3:30 |
Counterfactual conditionals |
von Fintel, "Counterfactuals in a dynamic context"
Gillies, "Counterfactual scorekeeping"
Moss, "On the pragmatics of counterfactuals"
Williams, "Conversation and conditionals"
|
| April 22, 3:20 |
Presupposition |
Kripke, "Presupposition and anaphora"
Soames, "Kripke on presupposition and anaphora"
Stalnaker, "Common ground"
Rothschild, "Making dynamic semantics explanatory"
|
| April 27, 3:20 |
Names & attitudes |
Cumming, "Variabilism"
Swanson, "Propositional attitudes" |
| No meeting |
Context-dependence and the semantics/pragmatics distinction |
Stanley, "Context and logical form"
Stanley & Szabo, "On quantifier domain restriction"
Soames, "The limits of meaning"
Bach, "Quantification, qualification, and context" |