Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to
the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a
theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on
communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of
utterance is and what it is to be in one.
Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism
Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language
Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism
Confronts
core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language
and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and
moral philosophy as well