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List of contents
- Each section ends with Suggested Further Reading.
- Note to the Sixth Edition
- Introduction
- I. NAMES
- Of Names (1881) , John Stuart Mill
- On Sense and Reference (1892) , Gottlob Frege
- Proper Names (1958) , John R. Searle
- Naming and Necessity (1972) , Saul Kripke
- Meaning and Reference (1973) , Hilary Putnam
- The Causal Theory of Names (1973) , Gareth Evans
- Frege's Puzzle (1986) Nathan Salmon
- II. DESCRIPTIONS
- On Denoting (1905) , Bertrand Russell
- Descriptions (1919) , Bertrand Russell
- On Referring (1950) , P. F. Strawson
- Mr. Strawson on Referring (1957) , Bertrand Russell
- Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966) , Keith Donnellan
- Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference (1977) , Saul Kripke
- III. ASCRIPTIONS
- Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956) , W. V. Quine
- Quantifying In (1968) , David Kaplan
- On Saying That (1968) , Donald Davidson
- Synonymity (1952) , Benson Mates
- A Puzzle about Belief (1979) , Saul Kripke
- The Import of the Puzzle About Belief (1996) , David Sosa
- Belief Ascription (1992) , Stephen Schiffer
- IV. COMMUNICATION
- Meaning (1957) , H.P. Grice
- Performative Utterances (1961) , J. L. Austin
- The Structure of Illocutionary Acts (1969) , John R. Searle
- Logic and Conversation (1975) , H. P. Grice
- Conversational Impliciture (1994) , Kent Bach
- A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1985) , Donald Davidson
- V. TRUTH
- The Thought (1918) , Gottlob Frege
- The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944) , Alfred Tarski
- Tarski's Theory of Truth (1972) , Hartry Field
- Truth and Meaning (1967) , Donald Davidson
- What is a Theory of Meaning (1975) , M.A.E. Dummett
- VI. ANALYTICITY
- Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) , W. V. Quine
- In Defense of a Dogma (1956) , H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson
- Two Dogmas Revisited (1976) , Hilary Putnam
- VII. IN DETERMINACIES
- Assertion (1978) , Robert Stalnaker
- Demonstratives (1977/89) , David Kaplan
- The Problem of the Essential Indexical (1979) , John Perry
- RULE-FOLLOWING:
- On Rules and Private Language (1982) , Saul Kripke
- The Rule-Following Considerations 91989) , Paul Boghossian
- VAGUENESS:
- Blindspots (1988) , Roy Sorenson
- Vagueness without Paradox (1994) , Diana Raffman
- Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness (2000) , Delia Graff Fara
- VIII. LANGUAGE
- Of Words (1690) , John Locke
- Philosophical Investigations (1953) , Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance (1950) , Carl G. Hemple
- Languages and Language (1975) , David Lewis
- Toward a Causal Theory of Linguistic Representation (1977) , Dennis Stampe
- Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988) , Noam Chomsky
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Philosophy of Language is the essential text in the field, collecting forty-eight of the most important articles in one place. The sixth edition has been revised to address changing trends and contemporary developments, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the subject.
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Philosophy of Language is the essential text in the field, collecting forty-eight of the most important articles in one place. The sixth edition has been revised to address changing trends and contemporary developments, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the subject.
