Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism
New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics
Edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter
Table of Contents
Introduction: Semantics and Pragmatics: Some Central Issues, Herman Cappelen
Part I: The Defence of Moderate Contextualism
1. Content, Context and Composition, Peter Pagin, Francis Jeffry Pelletier
2. A Little Sensitivity goes a Long Way, Kenneth A. Taylor
3. Radical Minimalism, Moderate Contextualism, Kepa Korta and John Perry
4. How and Why to Be a Moderate Contextualist, Ishani Maitra
5. Moderately Insensitive Semantics, Sarah-Jane Leslie
6. Sense and Insensitivity: Or where Minimalism meets Contextualism, Eros Corazza and Jerome Dokic
7. Prudent Semantics Meets Wanton Speech Act Pluralism, Elisabeth Camp
Part II: On Critiques of Semantic Minimalism
8. How Insensitive Can You Be? Meanings, Propositions, Context, and Semantical Underdeterminacy, Jay Atlas
9. Semantic Minimalism and Nonindexical Contextualism, John MacFarlane
10. Minimal (Disagreement about) Semantics, Lenny Clapp
11. Minimal Propositions, Cognitive Safety Mechanisms, and Psychological Reality, Reinaldo Elugardo
12. Minimalism and Modularity, Philip Robbins
13. Minimalism, Psychological Reality, Meaning and Use, Henry Jackman
Part II: Back to Semantic Minimalism
14. Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics, Emma Borg
Index