Language and Philosophical Linguistics, Volume 17

Philosophical Perspectives Volume 17, Language and Philosophical Linguistics, contains over 20 articles from leading philosophers of language and linguists.

1. In Defense of Obstinacy (João Branquinho).

2. Context Shifting Arguments (Herman Cappelin and Ernie Lepore).

3. An Argument for an Error Theory of Truth (John Devlin).

4. Vagueness Without Ignorance (Cian Dorr).

5. Diasgreement and Deference: Is Diversity of Opinion a Precondition for Thought (Stacie Friend and Peter Ludlow).

6. Desires, Scope and Tense (Delia Graff).

7. Category Mistakes in M&E (Gilbert Harman).

8. Conditionals and Compositionality (James Higginbotham).

9. Tense, Modality, and Semantic Values (Jeffrey C. King).

10. Time and Event Measure (Richard Larson).

11. Quantification and Second–Order Monadicity (Paul M. Pietroski).

12. Embedded Implicatures (François Recanati).

13. Adverbial, Descriptive Reciprocals (Barry Schein).

14. Understanding Deflationism (Scott Soames).

15. On Qualification (Zoltán Gendler Szabó).

16. Everything (Timothy Williamson).

17. All Sets Great and Small: And I Do Mean All (Stewart Shapiro)

Dean Zimmerman (Ph.D., Brown University, 1991) has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Syracuse University, and Rutgers University, where he is now an associate professor. He has published numerous articles, mainly in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. He is co–editor (with Peter van Inwagen) of Metaphysics: The Big Questions (Blackwell, 1998) and (with Michael Loux) of The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (OUP, 2003).

John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has published numerous articles on metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and early modern philosophy. His books include Knowledge and Lotteries (forthcoming), Substance and Individuation in Leibniz (with Jan Cover, 1999), and The Grammar of Meaning (with Mark Lance, 1997).