Liberating Content

Herman Cappelen, University of Oslo,Ernie Lepore, Rutgers University

Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the university of St Andrews, the Director of Arche Philosophical Research Centre, a Research Director at CSMN (Oslo), and the Editor-in-Chief of Inquiry. He is the author of six books: Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004; with E. Lepore), Language Turned on Itself (OUP, 2007; with E. Lepore), Relativism and Monadic Truth (OUP, 2009; with John Hawthorne), Philosophy without Intuitions (OUP, 2012), The Inessential Indexical (OUP, 2013; with Josh Dever), and Content in Context (forthcoming, co-authored with Josh Dever).

Ernest Lepore is a Board of Governors professor of philosophy and Co-Director of Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous books and papers in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics and philosophy of mind, including Imagination and Convention (OUP, 2015) with Matthew Stone); Language Turned On Itself (OUP, 2007) and Insensitive Semantics (Blackwell, 2004), both of which are co-authored with Herman Cappelen; Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality (OUP, 2005) and Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics (OUP, 2007), both with Kirk Ludwig; Meaning and Argument (Blackwell, 2000; 2003; 2009); and, with Jerry Fodor, Holism: A Shopper's Guide (Blackwell, 1991) and The Compositionality Papers (OUP, 2002). He has edited several books, including The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language with Barry C. Smith (OUP, 2006).

Introduction
Section One: The 'Alleged Connection'-Series
1. On an alleged connection
2. Insensitive quantifiers
3. Indexicality, binding, anaphora and a priori truth
4. Context shifting arguments
5. Radial and moderate pragmatics
6. A tall tale
7. Shared content
8. An abuse of context in semantics
9. The creative interpreter
10. Against assertion
Section Two: The 'Varieties of Quotation'-Series
11. es of quotation
12. Using, mentioning, and quoting
13. Varieties of quotation revisited
14. The heresy of paraphrase