Month: October 2013

  • Elucidations is now on Twitter!

    Check out our new Twitter feed at @ElucidationsPod. We’d love to hear your comments/thoughts/suggestions.

  • Episode 52: Rafeeq Hasan discusses Rousseau on freedom and happiness

    This month, we talk political philosophy with Rafeeq Hasan, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Click here to listen to our conversation. In today’s political discussions, we tend to assume that there are two ways a person can lean. Either you place a premium…

  • Conditional Questions: A Problem for a ‘Classical’ Semantic Approach

    In Elucidations Episode 51, Groenendijk and Roelofsen sketch out some of the merits of the inquisitive semantics approach to questions in contrast to the ‘classical’ semantic approach. One stark area of contrast is with respect to conditional questions—questions like: “If Matt drinks coffee, does Phil drink coffee?” Groenedijk and Roelofsen observe that the classic semantic…

  • Inquisitive Semantics Website

    There really is a lot of exciting work being done right now using the framework of inquisitive semantics.  If you’d like to browse through it all, a great place to start is the inquisitive semantics website. Matt Teichman

  • Background reading on inquisitive semantics

    If you’d like to take a look how the inquisitive semantic framework is set up, this is an up-to-date overview: Ciardelli, Groenendijk, and Roelofsen, ‘Inquisitive Semantics: a New Notion of Meaning‘ And if you’d like to examine the framework in a little more detail, this paper will probably answer all of your burning questions: Ciardelli,…