DANIEL ARVAGE NAGASE

This research aims at investigating the relations between semantics and communication. My starting point is the so-called interpretive tradition, in particular the works of Quine, David Lewis, and Davidson. On the one hand, I highlight the insufficiency of this tradition with respect to semantical matters: by focusing on the notion of truth conditions, these authors mistook the semantical for the pragmatical. On the other hand, I also highlight their lasting contributions to a theory of communication, in particular the way Lewis incorporates the notion of communication in a theory of coordination among rational agents.