brian rabern
Journal articles.
The myth of occurrence-based semantics
Linguistics and Philosophy
(forthcoming) (w/ B. Pickel) ::doi
American Philosophical Quarterly
(forthcoming) (w/ P. Todd) ::doi
Philosophical Studies
(forthcoming) (w/ B. Pickel) ::doi
Binding bound variables in epistemic contexts
Inquiry
(forthcoming) ::doi
Future contingents and the logic of temporal omniscience
Noûs
(2021), 55(1): 102-127 (w/ P. Todd) ::doi
(2020), 39: 8-9 ::doi
Monsters and the theoretical role of context
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
(2019), 98(2): 392-416 (w/ D. Ball) ::doi [ supplement ]
Against the Russellian open future
Mind
(2017), 126(504): 1217–1237 (w/ A. Schoubye) ::doi
A bridge from semantic value to content
Philosophical Topics
(2017), 45(2): 181-207 ::doi
Does semantic relationism solve Frege's puzzle?
Journal of Philosophical Logic
(2017), 46 (1): 97-118 (w/ B. Pickel) ::doi
The antinomy of the variable: A Tarskian resolution
Journal of Philosophy
(2016), 113(3): 137-170 (w/ B. Pickel) ::doi
The history of the use of ⟦.⟧-notation in natural language semantics
Semantics and Pragmatics
(2016), 9:12 ::doi
Well-founding grounding grounding
Journal of Philosophical Logic
(2016), 45(4): 349-379 (w/ G. Rabin) ::doi
Descriptions which have grown capital letters
Mind & Language
(2015), 30(3): 292-319 ::doi
Two-dimensional semantics and the nesting problem
Analysis
(2014), 74(2): 210–224 (w/ D. Chalmers) ::doi
Dangerous reference graphs and semantic paradoxes
Journal of Philosophical Logic
(2013), 42(5): 727-765 (w/ L. Rabern & M. Macauley) ::doi
Monsters in Kaplan's logic of demonstratives
Philosophical Studies
(2013), 164(2): 393-404 ::doi
Propositions and multiple indexing
Thought
(2012), 1(2): 116-124 ::doi
Against the identification of assertoric content with compositional value
Synthese
(2012), 189(1): 75-96 ::doi
A simple solution to the hardest logic puzzle ever
Analysis
(2008), 68(298): 105-112 ( w/ L. Rabern) ::doi
Counterpart theory (section)
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference
(2021), Biggs & Geirsson (ed.)
Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics
The Science of Meaning : Oxford University Press
(2018): 138-171 (w/ B. Pickel & J. Dever)
Introduction to the science of meaning
The Science of Meaning : Oxford University Press
(2018): 1-45 (w/ D. Ball)
Index, context, and the content of knowledge
Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism
(2017), Ichikawa, J. (ed.)
Volume and Encylopedia contributions.
Unpublished/unfinished
Paper for volume commemorating 50th anniversary of Kripke's Naming and Necessity
Against Fregean quantification (under review)
If counterfactuals were neg-raisers, conditional excluded middle wouldn’t be valid
(forthcoming in special issue of Synthese on indeterminacy) (w/ P. Todd)
Chess notation (in review)
Diagonal content and assertion (in progress)
Epistemic counterpart theory (in progress)
A note on the nesting problem for two-dimensionalism (in progress)
A formal semantics for Wittgenstein's builder language
Structural fixed-point theorems (w. L. Rabern),
Playing cards with Vizing's demon (w. L. Rabern),
In defense of the two question solution to the hardest logic puzzle ever (w. L. Rabern)
Compactness: From Gödel to Heine-Borel (w. L. Rabern and M. Macauley), arXiv:0808.0844
Papers in progress.
Books and edited volumes.
Essays on the metatheory of natural language semantics
Oxford University Press
(2018), edited w/ D. Ball
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
(2018)
co-edited w/ Cummins, Heycock, Rohde, and Truswell
(pdf)
(unfinished)
Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
3 Charles St., Edinburgh
EH8 9AD, United Kingdom