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Index
Front Cover
what is this thingcalled philosophyof language?
Quotes
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures and tables
Preface
Introduction
1 SIX PREPARATORY NOTES
2 COGNITIVE MEANING AND EXPRESSIVE MEANING
3 MEANING AND FORCE
4 CONTEXT-DEPENDENCE
5 THE ROLES OF PROPOSITIONS
6 COMPOSITIONALITY AND STRUCTURE
NOTE
1 Naïve semantics and the language of logic
1 NAÏVE THEORY: SINGULAR TERMS AND REFERENCE
2 TRUTH AND MEANING FOR ATOMIC SENTENCES
3 LOGICAL SYNTAX AND LOGICAL OPERATORS
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
NOTES
2 Fregean semantics
1 TWO PROBLEMS FOR NAÏVE SEMANTICS
2 THE SENSE-REFERENCE DISTINCTION
3 THE DISTINCTION EXTENDED
4 COMPOSITIONALITY AGAIN; THE REFERENCE OF A SENTENCE
5 APPLYING THE THEORY
6 SUBSTITUTIVITY AND EXTENSIONALITY
7 THE ANALYSIS OF PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES
8 THE OBJECTIVITY OF SENSE
9 FREGE’S THEORY OF THE REFERENTS OF PREDICATES, AND THE ONCEPT HORSE PROBLEM
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
SECONDARY READING
NOTES
3 Russellian semantics
1 THE TASK FOR RUSSELL
2 THE THEORY OF DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS
3 APPLYING THE THEORY OF DESCRIPTIONS
4 NAMES AS DISGUISED DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS
5 KNOWLEDGE BY ACQUAINTANCE AND KNOWLEDGE BY DESCRIPTION
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
SECONDARY READING
NOTES
4 Kripke and Putnam on naming, necessity and essence
1 THE DESCRIPTIVIST PARADIGM
2 NECESSITY, POSSIBILITY AND POSSIBLE WORLDS: A PRIMER
3 KRIPKE’S OBJECTIONS TO THE DESCRIPTION THEORY OF PROPER NAMES
4 RIGID DESIGNATION
5 FIXING THE REFERENCE I: CAUSAL CHAINS
6 FIXING THE REFERENCE II: DESCRIPTIONS
7 NATURAL KIND TERMS AND ESSENCE
8 INDEXICALITY
9 IS MEANING IN THE HEAD?
10 A WARNING AND A BIG PROBLEM
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
NOTES
5 Possible worlds: semantics, context and indexicality
1 POSSIBLE WORLDS AND INTENSIONALITY
2 INDEXICALS AND DEMONSTRATIVES
3 THE ACTUAL WORLD AS A CONTEXT
4 TWO-DIMENSIONALISM: CONTEXT OF UTTERANCE VERSUS CIRCUMSTANCE OF EVALUATION
5 FURTHER DISCUSSION: RIGID DESIGNATION AGAIN
6 THE RIGIDITY OF INDEXICALS
7 INDEXICALITY IS ESSENTIAL
8 INDEXICALS AND FREGEAN SENSE
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
NOTE
6 Pragmatics
1 MOOD AND FORCE REVISITED
2 SPEECH ACT THEORY
3 IMPLICATURE
4 SOME APPLICATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF IMPLICATURE
5 STRAWSON’S AND DONNELLAN’S OBJECTIONS TO RUSSELL’S THEORY OF DESCRIPTIONS
6 A PRAGMATIC APPROACH TO SEMANTICS
7 METAPHOR
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
SECONDARY READING
NOTE
7 The propositional attitudes
1 EXTENSIONALITY REVISITED
2 REFERENTIAL OPACITY AND FREGE ON THE ATTITUDES
3 FURTHER DISCUSSION: LOSS OF SEMANTICAL INNOCENCE AND MULTIPLE HYPER-INTENSIONAL EMBEDDING
4 DE RE AND DE DICTO NECESSITY
5 DE RE AND DE DICTO BELIEF
6 RALPH’S PREDICAMENT
7 BELIEF ATTRIBUTIONS AND EXPLICIT INDEXICALS; BELIEF DE SE
8 AN IMPLICIT INDEXICAL ELEMENT?
9 A PRAGMATIC PICTURE
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
NOTES
8 Davidson’s philosophy of language
1 METHODOLOGY
2 THE GENERAL FORM OF A THEORY OF MEANING
3 THE EXACT FORM OF A THEORY OF MEANING
4 THE EMPIRICAL CONFIRMATION OF A THEORY OF MEANING: RADICAL INTERPRETATION
5 THE PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY AND THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF BELIEF AND MEANING
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
SECONDARY READING
NOTES
9 Quine’s philosophy of language
1 QUINE’S NATURALISM
2 THE JUNGLE LINGUIST
3 INDETERMINACY
4 MEANING AND ANALYTIC TRUTH
5 THE ARGUMENT OF ‘TWO DOGMAS’; THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONCEPT OF MEANING
6 QUINE PROPOSES REPLACEMENT, NOT ANALYSIS
7 THE PLACE OF NATURALISM
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
SECONDARY READING
10 Wittgenstein’s alternative
1 LANGUAGE GAMES
2 FAMILY RESEMBLANCE, TOOLS AND CITIES
3 TO FOLLOW A RULE I
4 TO FOLLOW A RULE II
5 PRIVATE LANGUAGE
HISTORICAL NOTES
CHAPTER SUMMARY
STUDY QUESTIONS
PRIMARY READING
SECONDARY READING
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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