Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the universities of Oslo and St Andrews. He is a Co-Director of ConceptLab (in Oslo), and the Editor-in-Chief of Inquiry. He is the author of seven books and many papers.Josh Dever is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and a professorial fellow at the Arche research centre at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of many papers in philosophy of language and logic, and the co-author with Herman Cappelen of The Inessential Indexical and Context and Communication. He is also an associate editor of Semantics and Pragmatics.

an excellent, up-to-date introduction to a central problem about how language is used.

• Preface 1: Introduction to Kripkeanism and the Rejection of Fregeanism 2: A Puzzle about Belief, Reference, and Agency 3: A Puzzle About Referring To What Isn't There 4: The Puzzle of Essential Indexicality 5: Reference Magnetism and a Puzzle About Reference Determination 6: A Puzzle About Naming Arbitrarily 7: Predicativism: The Puzzle of 'Every Alfred' 8: Plural Reference: The Puzzle of 'John and Paul and George and Ringo' 9: A Puzzle about Intuitions and Methodology 10: The End of Reference?

Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the universities of Oslo and St Andrews. He is a Co-Director of ConceptLab (in Oslo), and the Editor-in-Chief of Inquiry. He is the author of seven books and many papers.Josh Dever is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and a professorial fellow at the Arche research centre at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of many papers in philosophy of language and logic, and the co-author with Herman Cappelen of The Inessential Indexical and Context and Communication. He is also an associate editor of Semantics and Pragmatics.

an excellent, up-to-date introduction to a central problem about how language is used.

• Preface 1: Introduction to Kripkeanism and the Rejection of Fregeanism 2: A Puzzle about Belief, Reference, and Agency 3: A Puzzle About Referring To What Isn't There 4: The Puzzle of Essential Indexicality 5: Reference Magnetism and a Puzzle About Reference Determination 6: A Puzzle About Naming Arbitrarily 7: Predicativism: The Puzzle of 'Every Alfred' 8: Plural Reference: The Puzzle of 'John and Paul and George and Ringo' 9: A Puzzle about Intuitions and Methodology 10: The End of Reference?