Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content. The science of semantics aspires to systematically specify the meanings of linguistic expressions in context. The paradigmatic metasemantic question is accordingly: what more basic or fundamental features of the world metaphysically determinethese semantic facts? Efforts to answer this question inevitably raise others. Where are the boundaries of semantics? What is the essence of the meaning relation? Which framework should we use for semantic theorizing? What are the intrinsic natures of semantic values? Are the semantic facts metaphysicallydeterminate? What is semantic competence? Metasemantic inquiry has long been recognized as a central part of the philosophy of language, but recent developments in metaphysics and semantics itself now allow us to approach these classic questions with an unprecedented degree of precision. The essays collected here provide promising new perspectives on old problems, pose questions that suggest novel research projects, and taken together, greatly sharpen our understanding of linguisticrepresentation.

Scott Soames: Preface; Alexis Burgess and Brett Sherman: Introduction: A Plea for the Metaphysics of Meaning; 1 Seth Yalcin: Semantics and Metasemantics in the Context of Generative Grammar; 2 Michael Caie: Metasemantics and Metaphysical Indeterminacy; 3 Jeffrey C. King: The Metasemantics of Contextual-Sensitivity; 4 Alejandro Perez Carballo: Semantic Hermeneutics; 5 Mark Greenberg: Troubles for Content I; 6 Mark Greenberg: Troubles for Content II: Explaining Grounding; 7 Amie L. Thomasson: Deflationism in Semantics and Metaphysics; 8 Sam Cumming: Discourse Content; 9 Karen S. Lewis: Do We Need Dynamic Semantics?; 10 Michael Glanzberg: Explanation and Partiality in Semantic Theory; 11 Matti Eklund: Replacing Truth?; 12 Isidora Stojanovic: Prepragmatics: Widening the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary; 13 Richard G. Heck, Jr.: Semantics and Context-Dependence: Towards a Strawsonian Account