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Journal of Philosophical Logic | 2012

Embedding If and Only If

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

Critical Notice: Peter Ludlow’s Living Words: Meaning Underdetermination and he Dynamic Lexicon, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014

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

Context, Compositionality and Amity: A Response to Rett

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

Unarticulated Constituents and Propositional Structure

Adam Sennet


Philosophy Compass | 2007

The Binding Argument and Pragmatic Enrichment, or, Why Philosophers Care Even More Than Weathermen about ‘Raining’

Adam Sennet


Philosophical Studies | 2015

What kind of a mistake is it to use a slur

Adam Sennet; David Copp


Philosophical Studies | 2012

Semantic plasticity and epistemicism

Adam Sennet


Analytic Philosophy | 2017

Pejoratives and Ways of Thinking

Adam Sennet; David Copp


A Companion to W.V.O. Quine | 2013

Quine on Paraphrase and Regimentation

Adam Sennet; Tyrus Fisher


Mind & Language | 2010

Saying and Agreeing

Ernie Lepore; Adam Sennet

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David Copp

University of California

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University of California

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