Semantics etc.

As promised a while back, a draft of “CIA Leaks” is now available. It is a smallish paper I wrote with Thony Gillies laying out a number of problems for some recent relativistic approaches to the semantics of epistemic modals.

We have two larger papers in progress: (i) a tutorial/survey on work on epistemic modals, destined for the second volume of Oxford Studies in Epistemology, and (ii) a paper laying out and defending our own approach to epistemic modals, destined for a volume on epistemic modals edited by Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson. Drafts of those two papers should surface sometime this summer.

[Update: There is a post at Certain Doubts about one of the points we raise in our paper.]

The Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung (ZAS) in Berlin has a web festschrift for Manfred Krifka:

Between 40 and 60 Puzzles for Krifka. April 26, 2006.

Lots of interesting stuff.

“Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.” (Pete Seeger).

Something to keep in mind not just when writing a song but also when crafting a scientific analysis of anything.