Arguing About Language Book

Introduction Part 1: A Homeric Struggle: Communication and Truth 1. Meaning H. Paul Grice 2. Meaning and Truth Peter Strawson 3. Language and Communication Michael Dummett Part 2: Sense and Reference 4. On Sense and Reference Gottlob Frege 5. Frege’s Puzzle Nathan Salmon Part 3: Definite Descriptions: Quantifiers or Singular Terms? 6. Descriptions Bertrand Russell 7. On Referring Peter Strawson 8. Mr Strawson on Referring Bertrand Russell Part 4: Rigidity vs. Descriptivism 9. Naming and Necessity Saul Kripke 10. Reference and Descriptions Revisited Frank Jackson Part 5: Analyticity 11. Two Dogmas of Empiricism W. V. Quine 12. In Defense of a Dogma H. Paul Grice and Peter Strawson Part 6: Truth and Meaning 13. Truth and Meaning Donald Davidson 14. Meaning and Truth Theory John Foster Part 7: Meaning, Intention and Convention 15. Languages and Language David K. Lewis 16. A Note on 'Languages and Language' John Hawthorne 17. A Chomskian Alternative to Convention-Based Semantics Stephen Laurence Part 8: Knowledge of Language 18. Knowledge of Language Noam Chomsky 19. Semantic Theory and Tacit Knowledge Gareth Evans 20. Theories of Meaning and Speakers’ Knowledge Crispin Wright Part 9: Meaning, Holism and Inferential Role 21. Why Meaning (Probably) Isn’t Conceptual Role Ernest Lepore and Jerry Fodor 22. Is Compositionality Compatible with Holism? Peter Pagin Part 10: Implicature 23. Logic and Conversation H. Paul Grice 24. Linguistic Meaning, Communicated Meaning and Cognitive Pragmatics Robyn Carston Part 11: Compositionality and Context 25. Against compositionality: the case of adjectives Ran Lahav 26. Adjectives in context Zoltan Szabo Part 12: Rule-following and Normativity 27. Kripke’s Account of the Argument against Private Language Crispin Wright 28. Semantic Normativity Asa Wikforss Part 13: Metaphor 29. What Metaphors Mean Donald Davidson 30. How Metaphors Work: a Reply to Donald Davidson Max Black Part 14: Vagueness in Language 31. Vagueness, Logic and Ontology Achille Varzi 32. Vagueness and Ignorance Timothy Williamson 33. Shifting sands: an interest-relative theory of vagueness Delia Graff Fara Part 15: Fictional Discourse 34. Truth in Fiction David K. Lewis 35. Talk about Fiction Stefano Predelli 36. Speaking of Fictional Characters Amie L. Thomasson