The Science of Meaning Essays on the Metatheory of Natural Language Semantics

Derek Ball is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews. His professional interests include the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Brian Rabern is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests centre around philosophy of language, logic, and formal semantics.

0. Introduction to the science of meaning, Derek Ball and Brian Rabern
1. What is - or, for that matter, isn't - 'experimental' semantics?, Pauline Jacobson
2. Axiomatization in the meaning sciences, Wesley H. Holliday and Thomas F. Icard, III
3. David Lewis on context, Robert Stalnaker
4. From meaning to content, Franc?ois Recanati
5. Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics, Bryan Pickel, Brian Rabern, and Josh Dever
6. Changing notions of linguistic competence in the history of formal semantics, Barbara Partee
7. Lexical meaning, concepts, and the metasemantics of predicates, Michael Glanzberg
8. Interpretation and the interpreter, Kathrin Gluer
9. Expressing expectations, Thomas Ede Zimmermann
10. Paul Pietroski, Thomas Ede Zimmermann
11. Semantic typology and composition, Paul Pietroski
12. Semantics as model-based science, Seth Yalcin
13. Semantic possibility, Wolfgang Schwarz
14. Semantics as measurement, Derek Ball