Introduction:
The Relation of Language to Value
Yi Jiang and Ernie Lepore
Refutation of the Semantic Argument against Descriptivism
Bo Chen
Semantics for Nominalists
Samuel Cumming
Presupposition and Semantic Minimalism
Adam Sennet
Compositionality and Understanding
Fei Yuguo
Values Reduced to Facts: Naturalism without Fallacy
Zhifang Zhu
Philosophical Investigations into Figurative Speech Metaphor and Irony
Ernest Lepore and Matthew Stone
Norms of Word Meaning Litigation
Peter Ludlow
The Inconsistency of Identity Thesis
Christopher Hom & Robert May
Describing I-Junction
Paul Pietroski
Predicates of Taste and Relativism about Truth
Barry Smith
Mood Force and Truth
Wiliaml Starr
A Semiotic Understanding of Thick Terms
Aihua Wang
An Echo of the Classical Analytic Philosophy of Language from China: the Post-analytic Philosophy of Language
Guanlian Qian
The Chinese Language and the Value of Truth-seeking: Universality of Metaphysical Thought and Pre-Qin Mingjia’s Philosophy of Language
Limin Liu
M-that And Metaphor Of Love In Classical Chinese Poetry
Ying Zhang
Orders from Germany, Switzerland and Austria: