Table of Contents

Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith: Introduction
The Historical Context
1: Richard G. Heck and Robert May: Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language
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: Languages and Idiolects: Their Language and Ours
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: 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: Predicate Reference
20: David Sosa: Rigidity
The Nature of Reference
21: David Braun: Names and Natural Kind Terms
22: Kent Bach: What Does it Take to Refer?
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

Reviews

This mammoth book should be read by anyone with an interest not only in philosophy of language, but in semantics and pragmatics, and even, though less centrally, in syntax. Though not introductory in the sense that it could be read by a first year student, it is well worth the effort of reading and, given the overall clarity of the chapters, accessible. The quality of the papers is sustained throughout and is of the highest sandard.
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