Readings
(These are mainly supplementary readings. See the course home page for readings on the syllabus.)
Barbara Abbott, "Attributive, Referential, De Dicto, De Re"
Luvell Anderson and Ernie Lepore, "Slurring Words"
Emma Borg, "Intention-Based Semantics"
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel"
Alex Byrne, "On Misinterpreting Kripke's Wittgenstein"
Rudolph Carnap, "Meaning Postulates"
Rudolph Carnap, "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology"
Noam Chomsky, "Language and Problems of Knowledge"
Noam Chomsky, "Knowledge of Language"
John W. Cook, "Wittgenstein on Privacy"
Donald Davidson, "On Saying That"
Donald Davidson, "Truth and Meaning"
Donald Davidson, "True to the Facts"
Michael Devitt, "Against Direct Reference"
Michael Devitt, "Intuitions in Linguistics"
Michael Devitt, "Linguistics is Not Psychology"
Keith Donnellan, "Necessity and Criteria"
Keith Donnellan, "Proper Names and Identifying Descriptions"
Keith Donnellan, "Speaking of Nothing"
Anthony Ellis on Kenny on Wittgenstein
Hartry Field, "Quine and the Correspondence Theory"
Hartry Field, "Tarski's Theory of Truth"
Jerry Fodor, "Rabbit Redux"
Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore, "Quine: Meaning Holism and Confirmation Holism"
Alexander George, "Katz Astray"
H.P. Grice "Logic and Conversation"
H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson, "In Defence of a Dogma"
Jakob Hohwy, "Deflationism about Truth and Meaning"
Chris Hom, "Pejoratives"
Chris Hom and Robert May, "Moral and Semantic Innocence"
Frank Jackson, "Reference and Description Revisited"
Mark Johnston, "The End of the Theory of Meaning"
Jerrold Katz, "The Unfinished Chomskyan Revolution"
Jerrold Katz, "The Refutation of Indeterminacy"
Jerrold Katz, "The New Intensionalism"
Elizabeth Kitis, "Frege's and Russell's Solutions to the Problems of Non-Existent Subject Terms, Identity Statements and Opaque Contexts"
Saul Kripke, "Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference"
Saul Kripke, "Speaker Reference and Semantic Reference"
Saul Kripke, "Empty Reference"
Saul Kripke, "Outline of a Theory of Truth"
Oystein Linnebo, "Compositionality and Frege's Context Principle"
Kirk Ludwig and Greg Ray, "Semantics for Opaque Contexts"
A.P. Martinich, "Reference and Descriptions"
Fritz McDonald, "Linguistics, Psychology, and the Ontology of Language"
Ruth Millikan, "Truth Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox"
Hilary Putnam, "The Meaning of Meaning"
Hilary Putnam, "Is Semantics Possible?"
W.V. Quine, "On the Reaons for Indeterminacy of Translation"
W.V. Quine, "Translation and Meaning"
Mark Richard, "Epithets and Attitudes"
Paul Roth, "Semantics without Foundations" (with Quine's reply)
Bertrand Russell, "Mr. Strawson on Referring"
Stephen Schiffer, Meaning, Chapter 1
Stephen Schiffer, Meaning, Chapter 3
Stephen Schiffer, "Overview of Remnants of Meaning"
John Searle, "Proper Names"
John Searle, "A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts"
John Searle, "The Structure of Illocutionary Acts"
Scott Soames, "Truth, Meaning, and Understanding"
Robert Stalnaker, "Reference and Necessity"
Jason Stanley, "Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century"
Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson, "Knowing How"
P.F. Strawson, "Intention and Convention in Speech Acts"
Alfred Tarski, "The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages"
Alfred Tarski, "The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics"
Morton White, "The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism"
Timothy Williamson, "Reference, Inference, and the Semantics of Pejoratives"
Benjamin Whorf, "Language, Thought, and Reality"