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 ...

Indexicals are linguistic expressions whose referents depend intimately on the context in which they occur. Examples such as “I”, “here” and “now” highlight the central challenge of capturing both the ...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) software design promises to populate the world's networks with many small, lightweight, reusable programs that can automatically combine to perform a vast range of ...