Description: A "**" indicates readings that are new to the fourth edition.IntroductionI. TRUTH AND MEANING1. Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1950)2. Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1953)3. Intensional Semantics (1951)4. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944)5. Meaning (1957)6. Truth and Meaning (1967)7. Meaning and Truth (1970)II. SPEECH ACTS8. Performative Utterances (1961)9. The Structure of Illocutionary Acts (1969)10. A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts (1979)11. Logic and Conversation (1975)12. Indirect Speech Acts (1975)III. REFERENCE AND DESCRIPTIONS13. On Sense and Nominatum (1892)14. On Denoting (1905)15. Descriptions (1919)16. On Referring (1950)17. Mr. Strawson on Referring (1957)18. Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966)IV. NAMES AND DEMONSTRATIVES19. Of Names (1881)20. Naming and Necessity (1972)21. Meaning and Reference (1973)22. The Causal Theory of Names (1973)23. Proper Names and Intentionality (1983)24. Dthat (1978)25. The Problem of the Essential Indexical (1979)V. PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES26. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956)27. On Saying That (1968)28. Quantifying In (1968)29. Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations (1975)30. A Puzzle about Belief (1979)VI. METAPHOR31. What Metaphors Mean (1978)32. A Theory for Metaphor (1981)VII. INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION33. Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1997)34. A Nice Derangement of Epithaphs (1985)35. Indeterminacy, Empiricism, and the First Person (1987)VIII. THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE36. Of Words (1690)37. Wittgenstein on Privacy (1965)38. On Rules and Private Language (1982)39. Truth Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox (1990)40. Languages and Language (1975)41. Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988)Each section ends with Suggested Further Reading

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