The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language

Contents

Introduction 1
Michael Devitt and Richard Hanley

Part I Foundational Issues 17
1 Foundational Issues in the Philosophy of Language 19
  Martin Davies

Part II Meaning 41
2 The Nature of Meaning 43
  Paul Horwich
3 Truth and Reference as the Basis of Meaning 58
  James Higginbotham
4 Language, Thought, and Meaning 77
  Brian Loar
5 Meaning Scepticism 91
  Alexander Miller
6 Analyticity Again 114
  Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore
7 Formal Semantics 131
  Max Cresswell
8 Speech Acts and Pragmatics 147
  Kent Bach
9 Figurative Language 168
  Josef Stern
10 Propositional Attitude Ascription 186
   Mark Richard
11 Conditionals 212
   Frank Jackson
12 Vagueness 225
   Stephen Schiffer
13 The Semantics of Non-factualism, Non-cognitivism,and Quasi-realism 244
   Simon Blackburn

Part III Reference 253
14 Names 255
   William G. Lycan
15 General Terms and Mass Terms 274
   Stephen P. Schwartz
16 Descriptions 288
   Peter Ludlow and Stephen Neale
17 Using Indexicals 314
   John Perry
18 Pronouns and Anaphora 335
   Stephen Neale
19 Naturalistic Theories of Reference 374
   Karen Neander
20 Truth 392
   ann McGee

Bibliography 411
Index 441

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