Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

Acknowledgements.

1. Overview.

Part I: From Moderate to Radical Contextualism.

2. Exegesis: The Methodology of Contextualism.

3. The Instability of Context Shifting Arguments.

4. Diagnosis: Why Context Shifting Arguments are Misused.

5. The Instability of Incompleteness Arguments.

6. Digressions: Binding and Hidden Indexicals.

Part II: Refutation of Radical Contextualism.

7. Objections to Radical Contextualism (I): Fails Context Sensitivity Tests.

8. Objection to Radical Contextualism (II):Makes Communication Impossible.

9. Objections to Radical Contextualism (III): Internal Inconsistencies.

Part III: Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism.

10. Semantic Minimalism.

11. Semantics and Metaphysics.

12. Semantics and Psychology.

13. Speech Act Pluralism.

References.

Index