David Beaver is professor of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the UT Cognitive Science Program. His books include Presupposition and Assertion in Dynamic Semantics and Sense and Sensitivity: How Focus Determines Meaning. Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them and How Propaganda Works (Princeton), among other books.
"""This important book by two prominent scholars..... Developing multiple theoretical refinements while assembling to the model, which will be of interest particularly to scholars of linguistics and philosophy.... A general reading audience would greatly benefit from the final part of the book, with is a gripping read. - Choice Reviews"""