Three Demonstrations and a Funeral and Other Essays

Maria de Ponte is associate professor at the University of the Basque Country and director of the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information. Kepa Korta is a philosopher of language at the Institute for Logic, Cognition, Language and Information of the University of the Basque Country. John Perry is the Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Stanford University.

It is wonderful to have all seventeen of these papers (previously dispersed across myriad journals and books) together in a single volume, amply demonstrating the explanatory power and depth of the Critical Pragmatics paradigm.  The volume will be an indispensable reference for anyone wanting to understand how linguistic communication works.

• 1. Three Demonstrations and A Funeral 1KORTA AND PERRY2 Radical Minimalism, Moderate Contextualism 25KORTA AND PERRY3 How to Say Things with Words 43KORTA AND PERRY4 The Pragmatic Circle 63KORTA AND PERRY5 Reference: A New Paradigm 75KORTA AND PERRY6 Intentions to Refer 87KORTA AND PERRY7 What is Said 107KORTA AND PERRY8 Highlights of Critical Pragmatics: Reference and the Contents of theUtterance 123KORTA AND PERRY9 Squaring the Circle 143KORTA AND PERRY10 Full but not Saturated: The Myth of Mandatory Primary PragmaticProcesses 155KORTA AND PERRY11 New Thoughts about Old Facts: On Prior’s Root Canal 173DE PONTE AND KORTA12 Truth without Reference: The Use of Fictional Names 191DE PONTE, KORTA AND PERRY13 Utterance and Context 211DE PONTE, KORTA AND PERRY14 Four Puzzling Paragraphs. Frege on “=” and “=” 225DE PONTE, KORTA AND PERRY15 Language and Luck 245DE PONTE, KORTA AND PERRY16 Philosophy of Language and Action Theory 265DE PONTE, KORTA AND PERRY17 Critical Pragmatics: Nine Misconceptions 287DE PONTE, KORTA AND PERRYReferences 307Index 319