Friday, August 29, 2008

Draft online

I just posted a new draft of a paper that I've been working on for a while. The title is 'Intention-Sensitive Semantics', and there's a pdf here. Here's an abstract:
Many (perhaps all) indexicals have their reference determined, in context, at least partly by the speaker's intentions. This fact has been seen by many as presenting an insurmountable challenge to the standard, character-based semantics for indexicals. I propose a way of accommodating this intention-sensitivity within the traditional framework by treating referential intentions as parameters of context.
It's still quite a rough draft, and comments are of course more than welcome and will be greatly appreciated. The more vicious the better.

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