Here are some references related to stuff that arose today in class.

Kripke’s most important nontechnical work on possible worlds semantics is:

• Kripke, Saul A.: 1980. Naming and Necessity. Harvard University Press. previously printed (except for the preface) in Donald Davidson and Gilbert Harman (eds.), Semantics for Natural Language, Reidel, 1972, pp. 253—355.

Musan discusses existence-independent predicates like famous in:

• Musan, Renate: 1997. “Tense, Predicates, and Lifetime Effects”. Natural Language Semantics 5 (3), 271—301. doi:10.1023/A:1008281017969.

Inconsistencies in fictions and elsewhere are discussed in:

• Varzi, Achille: 1997. “Inconsistency Without Contradiction”. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 38 (4), 621—638. preprint.

See also:

• Lewis, David: 1982. “Logic for Equivocators”. Noûs 16, 431—-441. Reprinted in David Lewis: 1998. Papers in Philosophical Logic. Cambridge University Press, pp. 97—-110.

None of these are essential readings for this class, but Kripke is a classic that one should read at some point and Musan is a very good recent semantics paper that merits reading. The Varzi and Lewis papers are for the very curious and/or philosophically-minded. There is an inconsistency-related entry on my weblog.