The winner of the 2023-24 Logic and Language Prize is Seungtaek Lee for his essay “”Varieties of Referential Intentions.”
“Varieties of Referential Intentions” by Seungtaek Lee provides an original and well-argued defense of the thesis that the semantic contents of our use of demonstrative expressions– like ‘this’ and ‘that’ in English– are fixed by different kinds of psychological states of language users in different contexts of use–that a variety of different types of referential intentions have semantic significance in our use of language.
Established in honor of Rudolf Carnap and David Kaplan, the prize recognizes the best essay or polished dissertation chapter on logic, the philosophy of logic, or the philosophy of language. More information regarding the prize can be found here and a list of previous Logic and Language essayists can be found here.