Table Of Contents:
Acknowledgements x
General Introduction 1(6)

PART ONE A Homeric struggle: meaning, communication and truth 7(34)

Introduction to Part One 9(6)

Meaning 15(7)

H. Paul Grice

Meaning and Truth 22(12)

P. F. Strawson

Language and Communication 34(7)

Michael Dummett

PART TWO Sense and reference 41(32)

Introduction to Part Two 43(6)

On Sense and Reference 49(7)

Gottlob Frege

Frege's Puzzle 56(17)

Nathan Salmon

PART THREE Definite descriptions: quantifiers or singular terms? 73(36)

Introduction to Part Three 75(6)

Descriptions 81(7)

Bertrand Russell

On Referring 88(17)

P. F. Strawson

Mr. Strawson on Referring 105(4)

Bertrand Russell

PART FOUR Rigidity vs descriptivism 109(38)

Introduction to Part Four 111(6)

Naming and Necessity (Lecture II) 117(18)

Saul Kripke

Reference and Description Revisited 135(12)

Frank Jackson

PART FIVE Analyticity 147(34)

Introduction to Part Five 149(6)

Two Dogmas of Empiricism 155(15)

W. V. Quine

In Defense of a Dogma 170(11)

H. Paul Grice

P. F. Strawson

PART SIX Truth and meaning 181(36)

Introduction to Part Six 183(10)

Truth and Meaning 193(13)

Donald Davidson

Meaning and Truth Theory 206(11)

John Foster

PART SEVEN Meaning, intention and convention 217(56)

Introduction to Part Seven 219(6)

Languages and Language 225(21)

David K. Lewis

A Note on `Languages and Language' 246(3)

John Hawthorne

A Chomskian Alternative to Convention-Based Semantics 249(24)

Stephen Laurence

PART EIGHT Knowledge of language 273(48)

Introduction to Part Eight 275(8)

Knowledge of Language as a Focus of Inquiry 283(9)

Noam Chomsky

Semantic Theory and Tacit Knowledge 292(12)

Gareth Evans

Theories of Meaning and Speakers' Knowledge 304(17)

Crispin Wright

PART NINE Meaning, holism and conceptual role 321(38)

Introduction to Part Nine 323(6)

Why Meaning (Probably) Isn't Conceptual Role 329(12)

Jerry A. Fodor

Ernest Lepore

Is Compositionality Compatible with Holism? 341(18)

Peter Pagin

PART TEN Implicature 359(36)

Introduction to Part Ten 361(6)

Logic and Conversation 367(12)

H. Paul Grice

Linguistic Meaning, Communicated Meaning and Cognitive Pragmatics 379(16)

Robyn Carston

PART ELEVEN Compositionality and context 395(38)

Introduction to Part Eleven 397(4)

Against Compositionality: The Case of Adjectives 401(12)

Ran Lahav

Adjectives in Context 413(20)

Zoltan Gendler Szabo

PART TWELVE Rule-following and normativity 433(38)

Introduction to Part Twelve 435(6)

Kripke's Account of the Argument Against Private Language 441(14)

Crispin Wright

Semantic Normativity 455(16)

Asa Wikforss

PART THIRTEEN Metaphor 471(28)

Introduction to Part Thirteen 473(4)

What Metaphors Mean 477(13)

Donald Davidson

How Metaphors Work: A Reply to Donald Davidson 490(9)

Max Black

PART FOURTEEN Language and vagueness 499(54)

Introduction to Part Fourteen 501(6)

Vagueness, Logic and Ontology 507(13)

Achille C. Varzi

Vagueness and Ignorance 520(12)

Timothy Williamson

Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness 532(21)

Delia Graff Fara

PART FIFTEEN Fictional discourse 553(42)

Introduction to Part Fifteen 555(6)

Truth in Fiction 561(12)

David K. Lewis

Talk About Fiction 573(6)

Stefano Predelli

Speaking of Fictional Characters 579(16)

Amie L. Thomasson
Index 595