The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy

Maite Ezcurdia is Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. Robert J. Stainton is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I: Canonical Foundations



Peter F. Strawson, “On Referring” (1950)
J.L. Austin, “Performative Utterances” (1956)
Keith S. Donnellan, “Reference and Definite Descriptions” (1966)
H. Paul Grice, “Logic and Conversation” (1967/1975)
Saul Kripke, “Speaker’s Reference and Semantic Reference” (1977)
David Kaplan, “Demonstratives” and “Afterthoughts” (1977/1989)
Robert C. Stalnaker, “Assertion” (1978)
David Lewis, “Scorekeeping in a Language Game” (1979)
John Perry, “Thought without Representation” (1986)
Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson, “Précis of Relevance: Communication and Cognition” (1987)

Part II: Pragmatic Determinants of What Is Said



John R. Searle, “Literal Meaning” (1978)
Robyn Carston, “Implicature, Explicature, and Truth-Theoretic Semantics” (1988)
Kent Bach, “Conversational Impliciture” (1994)
Jason Stanley, “Context and Logical Form” (2000)
François Récanati, “Unarticulated Constituents” (2002)
Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton, “Shorthand, Syntactic Ellipsis, and the Pragmatic Determinants of What Is Said” (2004)
Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore, “A Tall Tale: In Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism” (2004)
Emma Borg, “Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics” (2007)

Part III: Case Studies

A. Metaphor



Donald Davidson, “What Metaphors Mean” (1978)
John R. Searle, “Metaphor” (1979)
Catherine Wearing, “Metaphor and What Is Said” (2006)

B. Knowledge and Mind



David Lewis, “Elusive Knowledge” (1996)
Jennifer M. Saul, “Substitution and Simple Sentences” (1997)
Max Kölbel, “Faultless Disagreement” (2003)

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