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Informationen zum Autor Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University! distinguished philosopher! author of Knowledge in Perspective! co-author of Epistemic Justification! subject of Ernest Sosa and His Critics. Klappentext Some of the most distinguished active contributors to the field join together for a collection of their most recent work. Zusammenfassung * Brings together important new papers by many of the most distinguished philosophers of language * Takes up some of the central issues in the field in recent years * Includes some of the best cutting-edge work in philosophy of language. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Things and Their Aspects: NICHOLAS ASHER.2. Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is: DAVID BRAUN.3. Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs and Expressions: HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNIE LEPORE.4. Descriptions with Adverbs of Quantification: DELIA GRAFF FARA.5. MacFarlane on Relative Truth: RICHARD G. HECK, JR.6. Sententialism: The Thesis that Complement Clauses Refer to Themselves: JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM.7. Soames on Descriptive Reference-Fixing: ROBIN JESHION.8. Singular Terms, Reference and Methodology in Semantics: JEFFREY C. KING.9. From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction: PETER LUDLOW.10. The Meaning of "Water": An Unsolved Problem: WILLIAM G. LYCAN.11. "Knowledge of Language and Linguistic Competence": ROBERT J. MATTHEWS.12. Interpreting Concatenation and Concatenates: PAUL M. PIETROSKI.13. Understanding as Immersion: R. M. SAINSBURY.14. Terms in Bondage: NATHAN SALMON.15. Two Perspectives on Knowledge of Language: STEPHEN SCHIFFER.16. The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori: SCOTT SOAMES.17. Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non-Hyperintensional Contexts: TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON.Symposium.1. Self-Reflexive Thoughts: GILBERT HARMAN.2. on Self Referential Thoughts: CHRISTOPHER S. HILL Harman...