I’ll be off in Chicago for the APA Central most of this week, so posting will be light-to-non-existent. I’ll try and get the papers blog updated before I go, but no promises.

One thing that will be going on it when it gets done is the new book by “Robert May”:http://kleene.ss.uci.edu/~rmay/ and Robert Fiengo, “De Lingua Beliefs”:http://kleene.ss.uci.edu/%7Ermay/title.pdf.

bq. The topic of this book is beliefs speakers have about the language they know and use, beliefs that we refer to, as a class, as de lingua beliefs. Of the various de lingua beliefs a speaker may have, we explore those speakers have about the reference and coreference of linguistic expressions. Our interest is drawn to these beliefs because they reflect, in our view, fundamental aspects of our underlying linguistic competence, and how we employ that competence in aid of our communicative ends. Thematically, our inquires are broken into two parts: (i) the nature and genesis of linguistic beliefs, and (ii) the explanatory roles such beliefs play in language use. Exploring (i) takes us to issues of a fundamentally grammatical order, to aspects of linguistic theory wherein we seek descriptions of the resources available to speakers for generating linguistic beliefs. Consideration of (ii) builds on this foundation to the insight that the content of beliefs about the reference of expressions can be taken to be part of what we say by our utterances, a formal part of propositional content. This has direct consequences, explored in detail, for our understanding of the informativeness of identity statements and the failure of substitutions in attributions of propositional attitudes.