Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy; linguists; psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language.
Edited by Ernest Lepore, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and Barry C. Smith, Birkbeck College, University of London
Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith: Introduction The Historical Context 1: Richard Heck and Robert May: Frege and Semantics 2: Michael Beaney: Wittgenstein on Language 3: Thomas Baldwin: Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century The Nature of Language 4: Charles Travis: Psychologism 5: Anne Bezuidenhout: Language as Internal 6: James Higginbotham: Language and Idiolects The Nature of Meaning 7: George Wilson: Rule-Following, Meaning, and Normativity 8: David Papineau: Naturalist Theories of Meaning 9: Gabriel Segal: Truth and Meaning 10: Peter Pagin: Meaning Holism 11: Alan Weir: Indeterminacy of Translation 12: Emma Borg: Intention-Based Semantics 13: Stephen Schiffer: Propositional Content 14: Mark Greenberg and Gilbert Harman: Conceptual Role Semantics 15 15: Katalin Farkas: Semantic Internalism and Externalism 16: Robyn Carston and George Powell: Relevance Theory 17: Zoltan Gendler Szabo: The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics The Nature of Reference 18: R. M. Sainsbury: The Essence of Reference 19: Fraser MacBride: Subject and Predicate 20: David Sosa: Rigidity The Nature of Reference 21: David Braun: Names and Natural Kind Terms 22: Kent Bach: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Reference Semantic Theory 23: Jeffrey C. King: Formal Semantics 24: David Chalmers: Two-Dimensional Semantics 25: Dorit Bar-On and Keith Simmons: Deflationism Linguistic Phenomena 26: Josh Dever: Compositionality 27: Mark Richard: Opacity 28: Peter Ludlow: Tense 29: Barry Schein: Plurals 30: Dorothy Edgington: The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants 31: Michael Glanzberg: Quantifiers 32: Paul Pietroski: Logical Form and LF Varieties of Speech Act 33: Marga Reimer and Elisabeth Camp: Metaphor 34: Kirk Ludwig and Dan Boisvert: Semantics for Non-Declaratives 35: Jennifer Hornsby: Speech Acts and Performatives The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Language 36: Robert J. Stainton: Meaning and Reference 37: Barry C. Smith: What I Know When I Know a Language 38: Alexander Miller: Realism and Antirealism 39: Kathryn Gluer-Pagin: Triangulation 40: Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore: Shared Content 41: Donald Davidson: The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation