Borg’s Minimalism and the Problem of Paradox

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Semantics and Beyond: Philosophical and Linguistic Inquiries. Preface 1
4. On the Normativity of Speech Acts 9
5. Representations without Representa: Content and Illusion in Linguistic Theory 27
6. Kripke, Putnam, and the Description Theory 65
7. The Meaning of Formal Semantics 85
8. Frege’s Puzzle and the Direct Reference Theory 109
9. Situation Semantics, Time, and Descriptive Indexicals 127
10. The Prescription Argument Against the Normativity of Meaning 149
11. The Sense of Finitude and the Finitude of Sense 161
12. Green Leaves Again! An Assessment of Kennedy and McNally’s Solution to Travis’ Challenge 185
13. Borg’s Minimalism and the Problem of Paradox 207
14. Lexical vs. Grammatical Meaning Revisited 231
15. Sentence, Proposition, and Context. On the Idea of an Intermediate Level 241
16. On the Semantic Relevance of Romanovs 255
17. What Incompleteness Arguments Tell Us about Semantics and Linguistic Competence 271
18. On Underdetermination of Contextualism 291
19. Index 313