Introduction

I. NAMES

• Mills, J.S. (1881) - "Of Names"
• Frege, G. (1892) - "On Sense and Reference" (1892)
• Searle, J.R. (1958) "Proper Names"
• Kripke, S. (1972) Excerpt from Naming and Necessity
• Putnam, H. (1973) - "Meaning and Reference"
• Evans, G. (1973) - "The Causal Theory of Names"
• Salmon, N. (1986) - Excerpt from Frege's Puzzle (1986)

◇ Suggested Further Reading

• Bach, K. (1987) - Thought and Reference
• Carnap, R. (1956) - Meaning and Necessity
• Evans, G. (1982) - The Varieties of Reference
• Fine, K. (2007) - Semantic Relationism
• Forbes, G. (1990) - "The Indispensability of Sinn"
• Katz, J. J. ((1990) - The Metaphysics of Meaning
• McDowell, J. (1986) - "Singular Thought and the Extent of Inner Space"
• Putnam, H. (1975) - "The Meaning of 'Meaning'"
• Recanati, F. (1993) - Direct Reference: From Language to Thought
• Sainsbury, R.M. (2002) - Departing from Frege: Essays in the Philosophy of Language
• Sider, T. and D. Braun (2006) - "Kripke's Revenge"
• Stanley, J. (1997) - "Names and Rigid Designation"
• Vendler, Z. (1967) - "Singular Terms"
• Yourgrau, P. (1990) - "The Path Back to Frege"

II. DESCRIPTIONS

• Russell, B. (1905) - "On Denoting"
• Russel, B. (1919) - "Descriptions"
• Strawson, P.F. (1950) - "On Referring"
• Russell, B. (1957) - "Mr. Strawson on Referring"
• Donnellan, K. (1966) - "Reference and Definite Descriptions"
• Kripke, S. (1977) - "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference"

◇ Suggested Further Reading

• Donnellan, K. (1977) - "The Contingent A Priori and Rigid Designators"
• Jeshion, R. (2001) - "Donellan on Neptune"
• King, J.C. (2001) - Complex Demonstratives
• Neale, S. (1990) - Descriptions
• Peacocke, C. (1975) - "Proper Names, Reference, and Rigid Designation"
• Sharvy, R. (1980) - "A More General Theory of Definite Descriptions"
• Stroll, A. (1956) - "On 'The'"

III. Ascriptions

• Quine, W.V. (1956) - "Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes"
• Kaplan, D. (1968) - "Quantifying In"
• Davidson, D. (1968) - "On Saying That"
• Bates, B. (1952) - "Synonymity "
• Kripke, S. (1996) - "A Puzzle about Belief"
• Sosa, D. (1996) - "The Import of the Puzzle About Belief)
• Schiffer, S. (1992) - Belief Ascription (1992)

◇ Suggested Further Reading

• Burge, T. (1986) - "On Davidson's 'Saying That.'"
• Dennett, D. (1982) - "Beyond Belief"
• Loar, B. (1988) - "Social Content and Psychological Content"
• McGinn, C. (1982) - "The Structure of Content"
• Richard, M. (1995) - Propositional Attitudes
• Rumfitt, I. (1993) - "Content and Context: the Paratactic Theory Revisited and Revised"
• Schiffer, S. (1989) Remnants of Meaning
• Sosa, D. (1970) "Propositional Attitudes of De Dicto and De Re "

IV. COMMUNICATION

• Grice, H.P. (1957) - "Meaning"
• Austin, J.L. (1961) - "Performative Utterances" (1961)
• Searle, J.R. (1969) - "The Structure of Illocutionary Acts"
• Grice, H.P. (1975) - "Logic and Conversation"
• Bach, K. (1994) - "Conversational Implicature"
• Davidson, D. (1985) - "A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs"

◇ Suggested Further Reading

• Bach, K. (1999) - "The Myth of Conventional Implicature"
• Borg, E. (2007) _ Minimal Semantics_
• Cappelen, H. and E. Lepore (1989) Insensitive Semantics: a Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
• Davidson, D. (1978) - "What Metaphors Mean"
• George, A. "Whose Language Is It Anyway? Some Notes on Idiolects"
• Heck, R. (2002) - "Do Demonstratives Have Sensitives?"
• LePore, E. and B. Loewer (1989) - "You Can Say That Again"
• Recanati, F. (2004) - Literal Meaning
• Schiffer, S. (1993) - "Actual-Language Relations"
• Sperber, D. and D. Wilson (1995) - Relevance: Communication and Cognition
• Stainton, R.J. (2006) - Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language

V. TRUTH

• Frege, G. (1918) "The Thought: a Logical Inquiry"
• Tarski, A. (1944) "The Semantic Conception of Truth and Foundations of Semantics"
• Field, H. (1972) - "Tarski's Theory of Truth"
• Davidson, D. (1967) - "Truth and Meaning"
• Dummett, M.A.E. (1975) What is a Theory of Meaning?

◇ Suggested Further Reading

• Belnap, N. and A. Gupta (1993) The Revision Theory of Truth
• Blackburn, S., and K. Simmons (1999) - Truth
• Boghossian, P. (1990) - "The Status of Content"
• David, M.A. (1994) - Correspondence and Disquotation: an Essay on the Nature of Truth
• Grover, D.L., J.L. Camp, et al. (1975) - "A Prosentential Theory of Truth"
• Heck, R. (2005) - "Truth and Disquotation"
• Horwich, P. (1990) - Truth
• Kripke, S. (1975) - "Outline of a Theory of Truth"

VI. ANALYTICITY

• Quine, W.V. (1951) - "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"
• Grice, H.P. and P.F. Strawson (1956) - "In Defense of a Dogma"
• Putnam, H. (1976) - "'Two Dogmas' Revisited"

◇ Suggested Further Reading

• Boghossian, P. (1966) - "Analyticity Reconsidered"
• Carnap, R. (1963) - "W.V. Quine on Logical Truth
• Carnap, R. and W.V. Quine (1990) - Dear Carnap, Dear Van: the Quine-Carnap Corresondence and Related Work
• Coffa, J.A. (1991) - The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap: to the Vienna Station
• Juhl, C. and E. Loomis (2010) Analyticity
• Quine, W.V. (1936) - "Truth by Convention"

VII. INDETERMINACIES

• Context
  • Stalnaker, R. (1978) - "Assertion"
  • Kaplan, D. (1977) - "Demonstratives: an Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals"
  • Perry, J. (1979) - "The Problem of the Essential Indexical"
• Rule-Following
  • Kripke, S. (1982) Excerpt from On Rules and Private Language
  • Boghossian, P.A. (1989) - "The Rule-Following Considerations"
• Vagueness
  • Sorenson, R. (1988) - Excerpt from Blindspots
  • Raffman, D. (1994) - "Vagueness Without Paradox"
  • Fara, D.G. (2000) - "Shifting Sands: an Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness"

◇ Suggested Further Reading

• Austin, D. (1990) What's the Meaning of 'This?'
• Castenada, H. (1999) - The Phenomeno-Logic of the I: Essays on Self-Consciousness
• Evans, G. (1981) - "Understanding Demonstratives"
• Fine, K. (1975) - "Vagueness, Truth, and Logic"
• Kamp, H. (1971) - "Formal Properties of 'Now'"
• Lewis, D. (1980) - "Index, Context, and Content"
• Sorenson, R. (2005) - Vagueness and Contradiction
• Tye, M. (1990) - "Vague Objects"
• Williamson, T. (1994) Vagueness
• Wright, C. (1984) - "Kripke's Account of the Argument against Private Language"
• Wright, C. and A. Miller (eds.) (2002) - Rule-Following and Meaning

VIII. LANGUAGE

• Locke, J. (1690) - "Of Words"
• Wittgenstein, L. (1953) - Excerpt from Philosophical Investigations
• Hempel, C.G. (1950) - "Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes"
• Lewis, D. (1975) - "Languages and Language"
• Stampe, D.W. (1977) - "Toward a Causal Theory of Linguistic Representation"
• Chomsky, N. (1988) - "Language and Problems of Knowledge"

◇ Suggested Further Reading

• Brandom, R. (1998) - Making It Explicit
• Burge, T. (1989) - "Wherein is Language Social?"
• Chomsky, N. (1995) - "Language as a Natural Object"
• Ebbs, G. (2009) - Truth and Words
• Fodor, J. (1984) - "Semantics, Wisconsin Style"
• Green, M.S. (2007) - Self-Expression
• Lance, M.N. and J. O'Leary-Hawthorne (1997) - The Grammar of Meaning: an Exploration of the Normative Character of Semantic Discourse
• Larson, R. and G. Segal (1995) - Knowledge of Meaning: an Introduction to Philosophy of Language
• Lewis, D. (1969) - Convention
• Platts, M. (1997) - Ways of Meaning: an Introduction to a Philosophy of Language
• Rorty, R. (1968) The Linguistic Turn: Recent Essays om Philosophical Method
• Travis, C. (1989) - The USes of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language