Why Meaning (Probably) Isn't Conceptual Role *

this paper is about not semantics but the philosophy of language.Some of us have been poking around in the basement of meaning theory, and weseem to have discovered a large, nasty crack; as far as we can tell, one of thefoundation stones is coming unstuck. We thought we'd better tell you about it beforethings get worse.We'll proceed as follows: First we'll try to say where in the foundations the problem islocated; then we'll try to say what the problem is; and then we'll make a...