List of Contributors ........................................... xv
PART I THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
1 Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language ............... 3
Richard G. Heck and Robert May
2 Wittgenstein on Language: From Simples to Samples ........... 40
Michael Beaney
3 Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century ............. 60
Thomas Baldwin
PART II THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE
4 Psychologism ............................................... 103
Charles Travis
5 Language as Internal ....................................... 127
Anne L. Bezuidenhout
6. Languages and Idiolects: Their Language and Ours ........... 140
James Higginbotham
PART III THE NATURE OF MEANING
7 Rule-Following, Meaning, and Normativity ................... 151
George Wilson
8 Naturalist Theories of Meaning ............................. 175
David Papineau
9 Truth and Meaning .......................................... 189
Gabriel Segal
10 Meaning Holism ............................................. 213
Peter Pagin
11 Indeterminacy of Translation ............................... 233
Alan Weir
12 Intention-Based Semantics .................................. 250
Emma Borg
13 Propositional Content ...................................... 267
Stephen Schiffer
14 Conceptual Role Semantics .................................. 295
Mark Greenberg and Gilbert Harman
15 Semantic Internalism and Externalism ....................... 323
Katalin Farkas
16 Relevance Theory—New Directions and Developments ........... 341
Robyn Carston and George Powell
17 The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics ........... 361
Zoltán Gendler Szabó
PART IV THE NATURE OF REFERENCE
18 The Essence of Reference ................................... 393
R.M. Sainsbury
19 Predicate Reference ........................................ 422
Fraser MacBride
20 Rigidity ................................................... 476
David Sosa
21 Names and Natural Kind Terms ............................... 490
David Braun
22 What Does it Take to Refer? ................................ 516
Kent Bach
PART V SEMANTIC THEORY
23 Formal Semantics ........................................... 557
Jeffrey С. King
24 Two-Dimensional Semantics .................................. 574
David J. Chalmers
25 Deflationism ............................................... 607
Dorit Bar-On and Keith Simmons
PART VI LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA
26 Compositionality ........................................... 633
Josh Dever
27 Opacity .................................................... 667
Mark Richard
28 Tense ...................................................... 689
Peter Ludlow
29 Plurals .................................................... 716
Barry Schein
30 The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants .................... 768
Dorothy Edgington
31 Quantifiers ................................................ 794
Michael Glanzberg
32 Logical Form and LF ........................................ 822
PaulPietroski
PART VII VARIETIES OF SPEECH ACT
33 Metaphor ................................................... 845
Marga Reimer and Elisabeth Camp
34 Semantics for Nondeclaratives .............................. 864
Daniel Boisvert and Kirk Ludwig
35 Speech Acts and Performatives .............................. 893
Jennifer Hornsby
PART VIII THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS OF LANGUAGE
36 Meaning and Reference: Some Chomskian Themes ............... 913
Robert J. Stainton
37 What I Know When I Know a Language ......................... 941
Barry C. Smith
38 Realism and Antirealism .................................... 983
Alexander Miller
39 Triangulation ............................................. 1006
Kathrin Glüer
40 Shared Content ............................................ 1020
Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore
41 The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation ................ 1056
Donald Davidson
Index ........................................................ 1069
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