The Philosophy of Language

A. P. Martinich is Roy Allison Vaughn Centennial Professor in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. David Sosa is Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Professors Martinich and Sosa are the coeditors of Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology, Second Edition (2011).

I. NAMES 1. Of Names (1881), John Stuart Mill 2. On Sense and Reference (1892), Gottlob Frege 3. Proper Names (1958), John R. Searle 4. From Naming and Necessity (1972), Saul Kripke 5. Meaning and Reference (1973), Hilary Putnam 6. The Causal Theory of Names (1973), Gareth Evans 7. From Frege's Puzzle (1986), Nathan Salmon II. DESCRIPTIONS 8. On Denoting (1905), Bertrand Russell 9. Descriptions (1919), Bertrand Russell 10. On Referring (1950), P. F. Strawson 11. Mr. Strawson on Referring (1957), Bertrand Russell 12. Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966), Keith Donnellan 13. Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference (1977), Saul Kripke III. ASCRIPTIONS 14. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956), W. V. Quine 15. Quantifying In (1968), David Kaplan 16. On Saying That (1968), Donald Davidson 17. Synonymity (1952), Benson Mates 18. A Puzzle about Belief (1979), Saul Kripke 19. The Import of the Puzzle about Belief (1996), David Sosa 20. Belief Ascription (1992), Stephen Schiffer IV. COMMUNICATION 21. Meaning (1957), H. P. Grice 22. Performative Utterances (1961), J. L. Austin 23. The Structure of Illocutionary Acts (1969), John R. Searle 24. Logic and Conversation (1975), H. P. Grice 25. Conversational Impliciture (1994), Kent Bach 26. A Nice Derangment of Epitaphs (1985), Donald Davidson V. TRUTH 27. The Thought: A Logical Inquiry (1918), Gottlob Frege 28. The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944), Alfred Tarski29. Tarski's Theory of Truth (1972), Hartry Field 30. Truth and Meaning (1967), Donald Davidson 31. What Is a Theory of Meaning? (1975), M. A. E. Dummett VI. ANALYTICITY 32. Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951), W. V. Quine 33. In Defense of a Dogma (1956), H.P. Grice and P.F. Strawson 34. "Two Dogmas" Revisited (1976), Hilary Putnam VII. INDETERMINANCIES Context 35. Assertion (1978), Robert Stalnaker 36. Demonstratives: An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals (1977), David Kaplan 37. The Problem of the Essential Indexical (1979), John Perry Rule-Following 38. From On Rules and Private Language (1982), Saul Kripke 39. The Rule-Following Considerations (1989), Paul A. Boghossian Vagueness 40. From Blindspots (1988), Roy Sorenson 41. Vagueness without Paradox (1994), Diana Raffman 42. Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness (2000), Delia Graff Fara VIII. LANGUAGE 43. Of Words (1699), John Locke 44. From Philosophical Investigations (1953), Ludwig Wittgenstein 45. Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1950), Carl G. Hempel46. Languages and Language (1975), David Lewis 47. Toward a Causal Theory of Linguistic Representation (1977), Dennis W. Stampe48. Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988), Noam Chomsky