(b)logophile

I’ve noted recently a certain zoological obsession on the part of formal semanticists. It’s not just formal semantics, it turns out, but philosophy of language in general. I hope, in fact, that this will turn into an irregular Friday feature (Friday being the day we usually have talks). Today’s speaker, Herman Cappelen, told us that [...]

For the first time in ages I’ve bought a book newly printed, all unknowing of its contents. Well, not quite, but I got probably more excited about The Manual of Detection than might seem justified by the sparse reviews and basic lack of hype to be found online. Below the cut, my anticipation and purchase, [...]

Formal semantics has some kind of fascination with animals. At some point I plan to list a whole menagerie of examples,1 for which this post is just a taster (so to speak). I found some fresh spoor in the question session of today’s DIP lecture (quotes are approximate, alas): Fred: We have a theory of [...]