Philosophy of Language (Multiple-component retail product)

Volume I: Foundational Articles

1 Gottlob Frege, ‘The Thought: A Logical Inquiry’, trans. Anthony Quinton, Mind, 65, 1956, 289?311.

2. Gottlob Frege, ‘On Sense and Meaning’, Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege (Basil Blackwell, 1952), pp. 157?77.

3. Bertrand Russell, ‘Denoting’, Principles of Mathematics (Cambridge University Press, 1903), pp. 53?65.

4. Bertrand Russell, ‘On Denoting’, Mind, 14, 1905, 479?93.

5. Rudolf Carnap, ‘The Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language’, Logical Positivism, ed. A. J. Ayer (The Free Press, 1959), pp. 60?81.

6. Rudolf Carnap, ‘Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology’, Meaning and Necessity, (University of Chicago Press, 1956), pp. 205?21.

7. Alfred Tarski, ‘The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 4, 1944, 341?75.

8. C. L. Stevenson, ‘The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms’, Mind, 46, 1937, 14?31.

9. Carl G. Hempel, ‘Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes’, Aspects of Scientific Explanation (The Free Press, 1965), pp. 101?19.

10. J. L. Austin, ‘Performative Utterances’, in J. O. Urmson and G. J. Warnock (eds.), Philosophical Papers, 2nd edn. (Oxford University Press, 1970), pp. 220?39.

11. Paul Grice, ‘Meaning’, Philosophical Review, 66, 1957, 377?88.

12. W. V. Quine, ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, Philosophical Review, 60, 1951, 20?43.

13. W. V. Quine, ‘Translation and Meaning’, Word and Object (MIT Press, 1960), pp. 26?79.

14. W. V. Quine, ‘On the Reasons for Indeterminacy of Translation’, Journal of Philosophy, 67, 1970, 178?83.

15. P. F. Strawson, ‘On Referring’, Mind, 59, 1950, 320?44.

16. P. F. Strawson, ‘Singular Terms and Predication’, Journal of Philosophy, 58, 1961, 393?412.

Volume II: Semantics

17. Paul Grice, ‘Utterer’s Meaning, Sentence-Meaning and Word-Meaning’, Foundations of Language, 4, 1968, 225?42.

18. Paul Grice, ‘Utterer’s Meaning and Intentions’, Philosophical Review, 78, 1969, 147?77.

19. Donald Davidson, ‘Truth and Meaning’, Synthese, 17, 1967, 304?23.

20. W. V. Quine, ‘Comment on Donald Davidson’, Synthese, 17, 1967, 325?9.

21. Donald Davidson, ‘Belief and the Basis of Meaning’, Synthese, 27, 1974, 309?23.

22. Michael Dummett, ‘What is a Theory of Meaning? (I)’, Mind and Language (Clarendon Press, 1975), pp. 97?138.

23. Michael Dummett, ‘What Does the Appeal to Use Do for the Theory of Meaning?’, in Asa Margalit (ed.), Meaning and Use (Reidel, 1979), pp. 123?35.

24. Crispin Wright, ‘Truth-Conditions and Criteria’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 50, 1976, 217?45.

25. David Lewis, ‘Languages and Language’, in Keith Gunderson (ed.), Language, Mind, and Knowledge (University of Minneapolis Press, 1975), pp. 3?35.

26. Hilary Putnam, ‘Is Semantics Possible’, Metaphilosophy, 1, 1970, 187?201.

27. W. V. Quine, ‘Cognitive Meaning’, The Monist, 62, 1979, 129?42.

28 Crispin Wright, ‘Theories of Meaning and Speakers’ Knowledge’, in S. G. Shanker (ed.), Philosophy in Britain Today (Croom Helm, 1986), pp. 267?307.

29. Robert Stalnaker, ‘Assertion’, Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 9 (Academic Press, 1978), pp. 315?32.

30. Robert Stalnaker, ‘Semantics for Belief’, Philosophical Topics, 15, 1987, 177?90.

31. Scott Soames, ‘Semantics and Semantic Competence’, Philosophical Perspectives, 3 (Ridgeview, 1989), 575?96.

32. Ruth Millikan, ‘Local Natural Signs and Information’, Varieties of Meaning (MIT Press, 2004), pp. 31?45.

33. Ruth Millikan, ‘Productivity and Embedding in Natural Signs’, Varieties of Meaning (MIT Press, 2004), pp. 47?61.

34. Ruth Millikan, ‘Teleosemantic Theories’, Varieties of Meaning (MIT Press, 2004), pp. 63?70.

Volume III: Singular Terms, Propositional Attitudes, and Modality

35. W. V. Quine, ‘Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes’, Journal of Philosophy, 53, 1956, 177?87.

36. Ruth Barcan Marcus, ‘Modalities and Intensional Languages’, Synthese, 13, 1961, 303?22.

37. Ruth Barcan Marcus et al., ‘Discussion’, Synthese, 14, 1962, 132?43.

38. Keith Donnellan, ‘Reference and Definite Descriptions’, Philosophical Review, 75, 1967, 281?304.

39. Saul Kripke, ‘Identity and Necessity’, in Milton Munitz (ed.), Identity and Individuation (1971), pp. 135?64.

40. Saul Kripke, ‘Speaker’s Reference and Semantic Reference’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 2, 1977, 255?76.

41. Hilary Putnam, ‘Meaning and Reference’, Journal of Philosophy, 70, 1973, 699?711.

42. Gareth Evans, ‘The Causal Theory of Names’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 47, 1973, 187?208.

43. A. P. Martinich, ‘Referring’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1979, 157?72.

44. John Searle, ‘Proper Names and Intentionality’, Intentionality (Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 231?61.

45. John Perry, ‘Frege on Demonstratives’, Philosophical Review, 86, 1977, 474?97.

46. John Perry, ‘The Problem of the Essential Indexical’, Nous, 13, 1979, 3?21.

47. David Kaplan, ‘Dthat’, in Peter Cole (ed.), Pragmatics (Academic Press, 1978), pp. 221?43.

48. David Kaplan, ‘On the Logic of Demonstratives’, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 8, 1979, 81?98.

49. David Kaplan, ‘Words’, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 64, 1990, 93?119.

50. Gareth Evans, ‘Understanding Demonstratives’, in H. Parret and Jacques Bouvresse (eds.), Meaning and Understanding (Walter de Gruyter, 1981), pp. 280?303.

51. John McDowell, ‘De Re Senses’, Philosophical Quarterly, 34, 1984, 283?94.

52. Donald Davidson, ‘On Saying That’, Synthese, 19, 1968?9, 130?46.

53. Saul Kripke, ‘A Puzzle About Belief’, in Asa Margalit (ed.), Meaning and Use (Reidel, 1979), 239?83.

54. Mark Crimmins and John Perry, ‘The Prince and the Phone Booth: Reporting Puzzling Beliefs’, Journal of Philosophy, 86, 1989, 685?711.

55. Scott Soames, ‘Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content’, Philosophical Topics, 15, 1987, 47?87.

56. David Sosa, ‘Rigidity in the Scope of Russell’s Theory’, Nous, 35, 2001, 1?38.

Volume IV: Pragmatics, Thought, and Some Contemporary Issues

57. John Searle, ‘The Structure of Illocutionary Acts’, Speech Acts (Cambridge University Press, 1969), pp. 54?71.

58. Paul Grice, ‘Logic and Conversation’, Syntax and Semantics (Academic Press, 1975), pp. 41?58.

59. David Lewis, ‘Score Keeping in a Language Game’, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 8, 1979, 339?59.

60. Kent Bach, ‘Conversational Impliciture’, Mind and Language, 9, 1994, 124?62.

61. Kent Bach, ‘The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction: What it is and Why it Matters’, in Ken Turner (ed.), The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface From Different Points of View (Elsevier, 1999), pp. 66?84.

62. Robyn Carston, ‘Implicature, Explicature, and Truth-Theoretic Semantics’, in Ruth Kempson (ed.), Mental Representations (Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 155?81.

63. Christopher Potts, ‘Into the Conventional-Implicature Dimension’, Philosophy Compass (www.philosophy-compass.com).

64. Ernie Lepore and Herman Capellen, ‘Shared Content’, in E. Lepore and B. Smith (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 1020?55.

65. David Braun, ‘Empty Names, Fictional Names, Mythical Names’, Nous, 39, 2005, 596?631.

66. Francois Recanati, ‘Deixis and Anaphora’, in Zoltan Gendler-Szabo (ed.), Semantics vs. Pragmatics (Clarendon Press, 2005), pp. 286?316.

67. Delia Graff (Fara), ‘Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness’, Philosophical Topics, 28, 2000, 45?81.

68. Wilfrid Sellars, ‘Language as Thought and as Communication’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 29, 1969, 506?27.

69. Jerry A. Fodor, ‘Language, Thought and Compositionality’, Mind and Language, 16, 2001, 1?15.

70. Noam Chomsky, ‘Language and Interpretation: Philosophical Reflections and Empirical Inquiry’, in John Earman (ed.), Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science (University of California Press, 1992), pp. 99?128.

71. Noam Chomsky, ‘Language and Nature’, Mind, 104, 1995, 27?61.

72. Tyler Burge, ‘Philosophy of Language and Mind: 1950?1990’, Philosophical Review, 101, 1992, 3?51.