Readings
(See the course home page for readings on the syllabus)
Barbara Abbott, "Attributive, Referential, De Dicto, De Re"
Alex Byrne, "On Misinterpreting Kripke's Wittgenstein"
Rudolph Carnap, "Meaning Postulates"
Rudolph Carnap, "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology"
John W. Cook, "Wittgenstein on Privacy"
Donald Davidson, "True to the Facts"
Michael Devitt, "Intuitions in Linguistics"
Keith Donnellan, "Necessity and Criteria"
Keith Donnellan, "Proper Names and Identifying Descriptions"
Keith Donnellan, "Speaking of Nothing"
Anthony Ellis on Kenny on Wittgenstein
Hartry Field, "Quine and the Correspondence Theory"
Hartry Field, "Tarski's Theory of Truth"
Alexander George, "Katz Astray"
H.P. Grice "Logic and Conversation"
H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson, "In Defence of a Dogma"
Jakob Hohwy, "Deflationism about Truth and Meaning"
Mark Johnston, "The End of the Theory of Meaning"
Jerrold Katz, "The Refutation of Indeterminacy"
Jerrold Katz, "The New Intensionalism"
Saul Kripke, "Speaker Reference and Semantic Reference"
Saul Kripke, "Empty Reference"
Oystein Linnebo, "Compositionality and Frege's Context Principle"
Fritz McDonald, "Linguistics, Psychology, and the Ontology of Language"
Hilary Putnam, "The Meaning of Meaning"
Hilary Putnam, "Is Semantics Possible?"
Bertrand Russell, "Mr. Strawson on Referring"
Stephen Schiffer, Meaning, Chapter 1
Stephen Schiffer, Meaning, Chapter 3
Stephen Schiffer, "Overview of Remnants of Meaning"
John Searle, "Proper Names"
Jason Stanley, "Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century"
Jason Stanley, "Knowing How"
P.F. Strawson, "Intention and Convention in Speech Acts"
Aflred Tarski, "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages"
Benjamin Whorf, "Language, Thought, and Reality"