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List of contents
Volume I List of Contributors viii
Preface to the Second Edition xv
Preface to the First Edition xvi
Part I Meaning and Theories of Meaning 1 1 Metaphysics, Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Language 3
Michael Morris 2 Meaning and Truth¿Conditions: From Frege's Grand Design to Davidson's 27
David Wiggins 3 Intention and Convention in the Theory of Meaning 49
Stephen Schiffer 4 Meaning, Use, Verification 73
John Skorupski
Postscript: Bernhard Weiss 5 Semantics and Pragmatics 107
Guy Longworth 6 Pragmatics 127
Charles TravisPostscript: Charles Travis 7 On the Linguistic Status of Context Sensitivity 151
John Collins 8 A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics 174
Barry Loewer
Postscript: Peter Schulte 9 Inferentialism 197
Julien Murzi and Florian Steinberger 10 Against Harmony 225
Ian Rumfitt 11 Meaning and Privacy 250
Edward Craig
Postscript: Guy Longworth 12 Tacit Knowledge 272
Alexander Miller 13 Radical Interpretation 299
Jane Heal
Postscript: Alexander Miller 14 Propositional Attitudes 324
Mark Richard 15 Holism 357
Christopher Peacocke 16 Metaphor 375
Richard Moran
Postscript: Andrew McGonigal 17 Conditionals 401
Anthony S. Gillies 18 Generics 437
Bernhard Nickel 19 Deflationist Theories of Truth, Meaning, and Content 463
Stephen Schiffer Volume II Part I L anguage, Truth, and Reality 491 20 Realism and its Oppositions 493
Bob Hale
Postscript: Bernhard Weiss 21 Theories of Truth 532
Ralph C. S. Walker
Postscript: Michael P. Lynch 22 Truthmaker Semantics 556
Kit Fine 23 Analyticity 578
Paul Artin Boghossian
Postscript: Paul Artin Boghossian 24 Rule¿Following, Objectivity, and Meaning 619
Bob Hale
Postscript: Daniel Wee 25 The Normativity of Meaning 649
Anandi Hattiangadi 26 Indeterminacy of Translation 670
Crispin Wright
Postscript: Alexander Miller 27 Putnam's Model¿Theoretic Argument against Metaphysical Realism 703
Bob Hale and Crispin Wright
Postscript: Jussi Haukioja 28 Sorites 734
Mark Sainsbury and Timothy Williamson
Postscript: Aidan McGlynn 29 Time and Tense 765
Berit Brogaard 30 Relativism 787
Patrick Shirreff and Brian Weatherson Part II Reference, Identity, and Necessity 805 31 Modality 807
Bob Hale
Postscript: Bob Hale 32 Relativism about Epistemic Modals 843
Andy Egan 33 Internalism and Externalism 865
Jussi Haukioja 34 Essentialism 881
Graeme Forbes
Postscript: Penelope Mackie 35 Reference and Necessity 902
Robert Stalnaker 36 Names and Rigid Designation 920
Jason Stanley 37 TwöDimensional Semantics 948
Christian Nimtz 38 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Indexicals 970
John Perry 39 Objects and Criteria of Identity 990
E. J. Lowe
Postscript: Harold Noonan 40 Relative Identity 1013
Harold Noonan 41
De Jure Codesignation 1033
James Pryor Glossary 1080
Index 1117
About the author
Bob Hale is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is a member of the editorial board of Philosophia Mathematica, and is author of Abstract Objects (Blackwell, 1987) and Necessary Beings (2013; revised 2nd edn, 2015); co-editor of Reading Putnam (with Peter Clark; Blackwell, 1994), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Crispin Wright; Blackwell, 1997), and Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology (with Aviv Hoffmann, 2010); and co-author of The Reason's Proper Study (with Crispin Wright, 2001). Crispin Wright is Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling. His books include Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics (1980), Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects (1983), Truth and Objectivity (1992), Realism, Meaning and Truth (2nd edn, 1993), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Bob Hale, Blackwell, 1997), The Reason's Proper Study (with Bob Hale, 2001), Rails to Infinity (2001), and Saving the Differences (2003). Alexander Miller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His publications include Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2013), Philosophy of Language Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2007), and Rule-Following and Meaning (with Crispin Wright, 2002).
