The Science of Meaning

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: Derek Ball and Brian Rabern: Introduction to the science of meaning1: Pauline Jacobson: What is - or, for that matter, isn't - 'experimental' semantics?2: Wesley H. Holliday and Thomas F. Icard, III: Axiomatization in the meaning sciences3: Robert Stalnaker: David Lewis on context4: François Recanati: From meaning to content5: Bryan Pickel, Brian Rabern, and Josh Dever: Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics6: Barbara Partee: Changing notions of linguistic competence in the history of formal semantics7: Michael Glanzberg: Lexical meaning, concepts, and the metasemantics of predicates8: Kathrin Glüer: Interpretation and the interpreter9: Inés Crespo, Hadil Karawani, and Frank Veltman: Expressing expectations10: Thomas Ede Zimmermann: Fregean compositionality11: Paul Pietroski: Semantic typology and composition12: Seth Yalcin: Semantics as model-based science13: Wolfgang Schwarz: Semantic possibility14: Derek Ball: Semantics as measurement

Ball and Rabern have collected a set of prestigious chapters that well represent the current state of reflections on the nature, structure, and foundations of theories in mainstream FS. The volume will be of great interest to semanticists and contains a fair number of must-read essays (e.g., by Partee, Recanati, Yalcin) that could easily also be appreciated by linguists, cognitive scientists, and philosophers of language.