Unstructured Content

Peter van Elswyk, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University,Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University,Andy Egan, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University,Dirk Kindermann, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Universität Wien

Peter van Elswyk is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His research interests in the philosophy of language include formal pragmatics and speech act theory, evidentiality, and propositional anaphora.

Andy Egan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His research interests in the philosophy of language include epistemic modals, relativism, contextualism, and formal pragmatics.


Dirk Kindermann is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Universität Wien. His research interests in the philosophy of language include de se communication, relativism, contextualism, and knowledge ascriptions.


Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University-Newark. His research interests in the philosophy of language include formal pragmatics and speech act theory, pejoratives, and quotation.

Introduction, Peter van Elswyk, Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini, Andy Egan, Dirk KindermannPART 1: Enriching the possible worlds approach1. Minimal Rationality and the Web of Questions, Daniel Hoek2. Commitment issues in the naive theory of belief, Robert Williams3. Expressivism and propositions, Robert StalnakerPART 2: Truthmaker-style approaches4. A theory of partial truth, Kit Fine5. Relevance without minimality, Stephen Yablo6. Outline of an Object-Based Truthmaker Semantics for Modals and Propositional Attitudes, Friederike MoltmannPART 3: Assessing Unstructured Approaches7. Unstructured content, Jeffrey C. King8. Attitudes and Propositions, John Perry9. Fregean Particularism, Susanna Schellenberg10. In defence of Fregean that-clause semantics, Katharina Felka and Alex Steinberg