Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness

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.

Author: Ori Simchen
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 04/16/2017
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780198792147