David Liebesman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1120861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Liebesman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Liebesman |
| SIGNATURE | LIEBESMAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8879-7004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What copredication can(not) teach us
Copredication sentences such as ‘Lunch was delicious but took hours’ and ‘The book on the shelf was written by Tolstoy’ can be used to express truths despite ascribing prima facie incompatible properties to single entities. Theorists have drawn far-reaching and dramatic lessons about what copredication can teach us about language. We begin by focusing on the three such central lessons. In each case we argue that the lessons are mistaken. We then …
Ryan Nefdt
Ambiguity Tests, Polysemy, and Copredication
A family of familiar linguistic tests purport to help identify when a term is ambiguous. These tests are philosophically important: a familiar philosophical strategy is to claim that some phenomenon is disunified and its accompanying term is ambiguous. The tests have been used to evaluate disunification proposals about causation, pain, and knowledge, among others. These ambiguity tests, however, have come under fire. It has been alleged that the …
Copredication and Meaning Transfer
Copredication occurs when a sentence receives a true reading despite prima facie ascribing categorically incompatible properties to a single entity. For example, ‘The red book is by Tolstoy’ can have a true reading even though it seems that being red is only a property of physical copies, while being by Tolstoy is only a property of informational texts. A tempting strategy for resolving this tension is to claim that at least one of the predicates…
Double-counting and the problem of the many
Generics and the metaphysics of kinds
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the semantics of generics. And a relatively mainstream view in this work is that the semantics of generics must appeal to kinds. But what are kinds? Can we learn anything about their nature by looking at how semantic theories of generics appeal to them? In this article, we overview recent work on the semantics of generics and consider their consequences for our understanding of the metaphysics of kinds
Copredication, Counting, and Criteria of Individuation
Copredication is the phenomenon exhibited by sentences such as (1)-(3): ... This problem has driven theorists to a variety of dramatic conclusions, most notably that referential semantics should be jettisoned altogether (Chomsky, 2000; Pietroski, 2005; Collins, 2009, 2011 and forthcoming). Those who are moved by the puzzle but wish to preserve referential semantics have offered a range of complex semantic theories (Pustejovky, 1995; Luo, 2012; As…
Meaning Transfer Revisited
Does vagueness underlie the mass/count distinction
Quantifier Variance and Realism
Book Review| April 01 2013 Quantifier Variance and Realism: Essays in Metaontology Hirsch, Eli, Quantifier Variance and Realism: Essays in Metaontology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvi + 261 pp. David Liebesman David Liebesman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 310–314. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1963743 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Jeffrey C. King, The Nature and Structure of Content
Book Review| April 01 2010 Jeffrey C. King, The Nature and Structure of Content. Jeffrey C. King, The Nature and Structure of Content. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 230 pp. David Liebesman David Liebesman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 246–250. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2009-039 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sear…
Generics and the metaphysics of kinds
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the semantics of generics. And a relatively mainstream view in this work is that the semantics of generics must appeal to kinds. But what are kinds? Can we learn anything about their nature by looking at how semantic theories of generics appeal to them? In this article, we overview recent work on the semantics of generics and consider their consequences for our understanding of the metaphysics of kinds
Meaning Transfer Revisited
Does vagueness underlie the mass/count distinction
Jeffrey C. King, The Nature and Structure of Content
Book Review| April 01 2010 Jeffrey C. King, The Nature and Structure of Content. Jeffrey C. King, The Nature and Structure of Content. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. x + 230 pp. David Liebesman David Liebesman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 246–250. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2009-039 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Sear…
Quantifier Variance and Realism
Book Review| April 01 2013 Quantifier Variance and Realism: Essays in Metaontology Hirsch, Eli, Quantifier Variance and Realism: Essays in Metaontology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. xvi + 261 pp. David Liebesman David Liebesman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 310–314. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1963743 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail…
Does vagueness underlie the mass/count distinction
Meaning Transfer Revisited
Copredication, Counting, and Criteria of Individuation
Copredication is the phenomenon exhibited by sentences such as (1)-(3): ... This problem has driven theorists to a variety of dramatic conclusions, most notably that referential semantics should be jettisoned altogether (Chomsky, 2000; Pietroski, 2005; Collins, 2009, 2011 and forthcoming). Those who are moved by the puzzle but wish to preserve referential semantics have offered a range of complex semantic theories (Pustejovky, 1995; Luo, 2012; As…
Double-counting and the problem of the many
Generics and the metaphysics of kinds
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the semantics of generics. And a relatively mainstream view in this work is that the semantics of generics must appeal to kinds. But what are kinds? Can we learn anything about their nature by looking at how semantic theories of generics appeal to them? In this article, we overview recent work on the semantics of generics and consider their consequences for our understanding of the metaphysics of kinds
Copredication and Meaning Transfer
Copredication occurs when a sentence receives a true reading despite prima facie ascribing categorically incompatible properties to a single entity. For example, ‘The red book is by Tolstoy’ can have a true reading even though it seems that being red is only a property of physical copies, while being by Tolstoy is only a property of informational texts. A tempting strategy for resolving this tension is to claim that at least one of the predicates…
Ambiguity Tests, Polysemy, and Copredication
A family of familiar linguistic tests purport to help identify when a term is ambiguous. These tests are philosophically important: a familiar philosophical strategy is to claim that some phenomenon is disunified and its accompanying term is ambiguous. The tests have been used to evaluate disunification proposals about causation, pain, and knowledge, among others. These ambiguity tests, however, have come under fire. It has been alleged that the …
Ryan Nefdt
What copredication can(not) teach us
Copredication sentences such as ‘Lunch was delicious but took hours’ and ‘The book on the shelf was written by Tolstoy’ can be used to express truths despite ascribing prima facie incompatible properties to single entities. Theorists have drawn far-reaching and dramatic lessons about what copredication can teach us about language. We begin by focusing on the three such central lessons. In each case we argue that the lessons are mistaken. We then …
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