Description: I. TRUTH AND MEANING1. Carl Hempel: Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1950)2. W.V. Quine: Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)3. Alonzo Church: Intensional Semantics (1951)4. Alfred Tarski: The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944)5. H.P. Grice: Meaning (1957)6. Donald Davidson: Truth and Meaning (1967)7. P.F. Strawson: Meaning and Truth (1969)II. SPEECH ACTS8. J.L. Austin: Performative Utterances (1961)9. John R. Searle: What Is a Speech Act (1965)10. A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts (1979)11. H.P. Grice: Logic and Conversation (1975)12. John R. Searle: Indirect Speech Acts (1975)III. REFERENCE AND DESCRIPTIONS13. Gottlob Frege: On Sense and Nominatum (1892)14. Bertrand Russell: On Denoting (1905)15. Bertrand Russell: Descriptions (1919)16. P.F. Strawson: On Referring (1950)17. Keith Donnellan: Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966)IV. NAMES AND DEMONSTRATIVES18. Proper Names (1958)19. Saul Kripke: Naming and Necessity (1972)20. Gareth Evans: The Causal Theory of Names (1973)21. Hilary Putnam: Meaning and Reference (1973)22. David Kaplan: Dthat (1975)23. John R. Searle: Proper Names and Intentionality (1983)V. PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES24. W.V. Quine: Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956)25. Donald Davidson: On Saying That (1968)26. David Kaplan: Quantifying In (1968)27. Jon Barwise and John Perry: Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations (1975)28. Saul Kripke: A Puzzle About Belief (1979)VI. METAPHOR29. Donald Davidson: What Metaphors Mean (1978)30. A.P. Martinich: A Theory for Metaphor (1981)VII. INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION31. W.V. Quine: Meaning (1992)32. Donald Davidson: Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1974)33. Donald Davidson: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1985)34. John R. Searle: Indeterminacy, Empiricism, and the First Person (1987)VIII. THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE35. John Locke: Of Words (1690)36. John Cook: Wittgenstein on Privacy (1965)37. Saul Kripke: On Rules and Private Language (1982)38. David Lewis: Languages and Language (1975)39. Noam Chomsky: Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988)All sections followed by bibliographies for Suggested Further Reading

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