Synthese, Vol. 195, No. 5, Special Issue on NEUROSCIENCE AND ITS PHILOSOPHY (May 2018), pp. 2175-2204 (30 pages) The argument from convention contends that the regular use of definite descriptions as ...

I discuss Paolo Casalegno's objections to my views about semantic normativity as presented in my book Lexical Competence (MIT Press, 1997) and in a later paper. I argue that, contrary to Casalegno's ...

Semantics is studied for a number of different reasons but perhaps one of the main reasons could be: “If we view Semantics as the study of meaning then it becomes central to the study of communication ...