Readership: Advanced students and scholars of philosophy; linguists working on semantics
Gary Ebbs, Indiana University, Bloomington
"[I]t would be hard to imagine a mode of presentation more careful and lucid than Ebbs's... [T]he richness and imaginativeness of his effort will likely prove highly fruitful... His critique of token-and-ex-use-based conceptions of words and his bringing of PJSS's [practical judgments of sameness of satisfaction] to centre stage alone make the book important and worthy of careful and widespread consideration." - Michael Kac, Analysis
"a first-rate philosophical work... Ebbs's view of words and their extensions is highly original and very thoroughly and clearly argued, and may require a dramatic gestalt shift in our understanding of words and meaning. It engages with much of the best contemporary work on the philosophy of language and meaning, giving arguments against widely held views that will surely "enhance and clarify" our philosophical inquiries about words, truth, and meaning." - Cory Juhl, Philosophical Books
Introduction 1: Regimentation 2: The Tarski-Quine thesis 3: The intersubjectivity constraint 4: How to think about words 5: Learning from others, interpretation, and charity 6: A puzzle about sameness of satisfaction across time 7: Sense and partial extension 8: The puzzle diagnosed and dissolved 9: Applications and consequences
