Bounded Meaning

Bounded Meaning develops a new theory of how and why semantic interpretation depends not just on global information, but also on local information. Mandelkern provides criticisms of the dominant theory, dynamic semantics, and proposes a new theory of bounds as limits on admissible interpretations of an expression.

Matthew Mandelkern is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He received a PhD in Philosophy from MIT. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, 2017-2020. He works on the philosophy of language and its intersections with neighbouring fields.

- 1: Introduction
- Part I: Modals and Conditionals
- 2: The Dynamics of Modality
- 3: The Dynamics of Conditionals
- 4: Against Dynamic Semantics
- 5: Bounded Modals and Conditionals
- Part II: Conditionals: Reasoning and Probability
- 6: Reasoning with Conditionals
- 7: Probabilities of Conditionals
- Part III: Anaphora
- 8: The Dynamics of Anaphora
- 9: Bounded Anaphora
- 10: Quantification and Subordination
- Part IV: Concluding
- 11: Local Contexts
- 12: Conclusion