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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes, you can enter into a technology too early. The groundwork for semantics was laid down in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with Tim Berners-Lee's stellar Semantic Web article, debuting in ...