The Philosophy of Language

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.

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