Insensitive Semantics, Chp. 6
Welcome back! Time to report on our most recent meeting of our reading group, this one concerned with chapter 6. I presented, and my handout is available here.
Insensitive Semantics, chapter 5
Today’s discussion was led by Brian Hedden, an MIT grad student. His handout is available here, and it covers chapter 5 of the book. Read the rest of this entry »
Insensitive Semantics, Chapters 3 and 4
Marie Guillot (who’s visiting MIT this year) led our discussion today. Here is the handout she made. In many ways, chapter 3 is a crucial chapter in the book, because it’s supposed to establish the following conditional. Read the rest of this entry »
Beginning Insensitive Semantics
We had our first meeting of our reading group on Insensitive Semantics. Ephraim led our discussion of chapters 1 and 2, and he made the handout available.
Most of our time was spent on chapter 1, in which C&L set out how they see the lay of the land. The basic question that their book is a contribution to Read the rest of this entry »