Description: I. TRUTH AND MEANING 1. Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1950), Carl Hempel 2. Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951), W.V. Quine 3. Intensional Semantics (1951), Alonzo Church 4. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944), Alfred Tarski 5. Meaning (1957), H.P. Grice 6. Truth and Meaning (1967), Donald Davidson 7. Meaning and Truth (1969), P.F. Strawson II. SPEECH ACTS 8. Performative Utterances (1961), J.L. Austin 9. What Is a Speech Act (1965), John R. Searle 10. A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts (1979) 11. Logic and Conversation (1975), H.P. Grice 12. Indirect Speech Acts (1975), John R. Searle III. REFERENCE AND DESCRIPTIONS 13. On Sense and Nominatum (1892), Gottlob Frege 14. On Denoting (1905), Bertrand Russell 15. Descriptions (1919), Bertrand Russell 16. On Referring (1950), P.F. Strawson 17. Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966), Keith Donnellan IV. NAMES AND DEMONSTRATIVES 18. Proper Names (1958) 19. Naming and Necessity (1972), Saul Kripke 20. The Causal Theory of Names (1973), Gareth Evans 21. Meaning and Reference (1973), Hilary Putnam 22. Dthat (1975), David Kaplan 23. Proper Names and Intentionality (1983), John R. Searle V. PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES 24. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956), W.V. Quine 25. On Saying That (1968), Donald Davidson 26. Quantifying In (1968), David Kaplan 27. Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations (1975), Jon Barwise and John Perry 28. A Puzzle About Belief (1979), Saul Kripke VI. METAPHOR 29. What Metaphors Mean (1978), Donald Davidson 30. A Theory for Metaphor (1981), A.P. Martinich VII. INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION 31. Meaning (1992), W.V. Quine 32. Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1974), Donald Davidson 33. A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1985), Donald Davidson 34. Indeterminacy, Empiricism, and the First Person (1987), John R. Searle VIII. THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE 35. Of Words (1690), John Locke 36. Wittgenstein on Privacy (1965), John Cook 37. On Rules and Private Language (1982), Saul Kripke 38. Languages and Language (1975), David Lewis 39. Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988), Noam Chomsky All sections followed by bibliographies for Suggested Further Reading

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