Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It will be an essential resource for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy, for linguists interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and for psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language.

List of Contributors

xv

PART I THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT

1. Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language

3

(37)

RICHARD G. HECK AND ROBERT MAY

2. Wittgenstein on Language: From Simples to Samples

40

(20)

MICHAEL BEANEY

3. Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century

60

(43)

THOMAS BALDWIN

PART II THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE

4. Psychologism

103

(24)

CHARLES TRAVIS

5. Language as Internal

127

(13)

ANNE L. BEZUIDENHOUT

6. Languages and Idiolects: Their Language and Ours

140

(11)

JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM

PART III THE NATURE OF MEANING

7. Ride-Following, Meaning, and Normativity

151

(24)

GEORGE WILSON

8. Naturalist Theories of Meaning

175

(14)

DAVID PAPINEAU

9. Truth and Meaning

189

(24)

GABRIEL SEGAL

10. Meaning Holism

213

(20)

PETER PAGIN

11. Indeterminacy of Translation

233

(17)

ALAN WEIR

12. Intention-Based Semantics

250

(17)

EMMA BORG

13. Propositional Content

267

(28)

STEPHEN SCHIFFER

14. Conceptual Role Semantics

295

(28)

MARK GREENBERG AND GILBERT HARMAN

15. Semantic Internalism and Externalism

323

(18)

KATALIN FARKAS

16. Relevance Theory—New Directions and Developments

341

(20)

ROBYN CARSTON AND GEORGE POWELL

17. The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics

361

(32)

ZOLTÁN GENDLER SZABÓ

PART IV THE NATURE OF REFERENCE

18. The Essence of Reference

393

(29)

R.M. SAINSBURY

19. Predicate Reference

422

(54)

FRASER MACBRIDE

20. Rigidity

476

(14)

DAVID SOSA

21. Names and Natural Kind Terms

490

(26)

DAVID BRAUN

22. What Does it Take to Refer?

516

(41)

KENT BACH

PART V SEMANTIC THEORY

23. Formal Semantics

557

(17)

JEFFREY C. KING

24. Two-Dimensional Semantics

574

(33)

DAVID J. CHALMERS

25. Deflationism

607

(26)

DORIT BAR-ON AND KEITH SIMMONS

PART VI LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA

26. Compositionality

633

(34)

JOSH DEVER

27. Opacity

667

(22)

MARK RICHARD

28. Tense

689

(27)

PETER LUDLOW

29. Plurals

716

(52)

BARRY SCHEIN

30. The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants

768

(26)

DOROTHY EDGINGTON

31. Quantifiers

794

(28)

MICHAEL GLANZBERG

32. Logical Form and LF

822

(23)

PAUL PIETROSKI

PART VII VARIETIES OF SPEECH ACT

33. Metaphor

845

(19)

MARGA REIMER AND ELISABETH CAMP

34. Semantics for Nondeclaratives

864

(29)

DANIEL BOISVERT AND KIRK LUDWIG

35. Speech Acts and Performatives

893

(20)

JENNIFER HORNSBY

PART VIII THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS OF LANGUAGE

36. Meaning and Reference: Some Chomskian Themes

913

(28)

ROBERT J. STAINTON

37. What I Know When I Know a Language

941

(42)

BARRY C. SMITH

38. Realism and Antirealism

983

(23)

ALEXANDER MILLER

39. Triangulation

1006

(14)

KATHRIN GLÜER

40. Shared Content

1020

(36)

HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNEST LEPORE

41. The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation

1056

(13)

DONALD DAVIDSON

Index

1069

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