Adam Sennet
University of California, Davis
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Journal of Philosophical Logic | 2012
Adam Sennet; Jonathan Weisberg
Some left-nested indicative conditionals are hard to interpret while others seem fine. Some proponents of the view that indicative conditionals have No Truth Values (NTV) use their view to explain why some left-nestings are hard to interpret: the embedded conditional does not express the truth conditions needed by the embedding conditional. Left-nestings that seem fine are then explained away as cases of ad hoc, pragmatic interpretation. We challenge this explanation. The standard reasons for NTV about indicative conditionals (triviality results, Gibbardian standoffs, etc.) extend naturally to NTV about biconditionals. So NTVers about conditionals should also be NTVers about biconditionals. But biconditionals embed much more freely than conditionals. If NTV explains why some left-nested conditionals are hard to interpret, why do biconditionals embed successfully in the very contexts where conditionals do not embed?
Canadian Journal of Philosophy | 2018
Adam Sennet; Tyrus Fisher
A provocative view has it that word meanings are underdetermined and dynamic, frustrating traditional approaches to theorizing about meaning. Peter Ludlow’s Living Words provides some of the philosophical reasons and motivations for accepting one such view, develops some of its details, and explores some of its ramifications. We critically examine some of the arguments in Living Words, paying particular attention to some of Ludlow’s views about the meanings of predicates, preservation of bivalence and the T-schema, and methods of modulating meaning.
Canadian Journal of Philosophy | 2012
Adam Sennet
In an insightful and provocative paper, Jessica Rett (2006) claims that attempts to locate the (non-indexical, non-demonstrative) semantic contributions of context in syntax run into problems respecting compositionality. This is an especially biting problem for hidden indexical theorists such as Stanley (2000, 2002) who deploy hidden variables to provide a compositional theory of semantic interpretation. Fortunately for the hidden indexical theorists, her attack fails, albeit in interesting and subtle ways. The following paper is divided into four sections. Section I presents a skeletal version of Rett’s argument. Those already familiar with Rett (2006) can skip ahead without shame. Section II offers a defense to the hidden indexical theorists. The defense will involve distinguishing the determinants of sentence meaning relative to a context from the
Mind & Language | 2011
Adam Sennet
Philosophy Compass | 2007
Adam Sennet
Philosophical Studies | 2015
Adam Sennet; David Copp
Philosophical Studies | 2012
Adam Sennet
Analytic Philosophy | 2017
Adam Sennet; David Copp
A Companion to W.V.O. Quine | 2013
Adam Sennet; Tyrus Fisher
Mind & Language | 2010
Ernie Lepore; Adam Sennet