Philosophy of Language

Readings

• Lycan, W. G. (2019). Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction. Routledge
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• Soames, S. (2010). Philosophy of Language. Princeton University Press. Anthologies:
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• Publishers, Inc
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• Hornsby, J. & Longworth, G. (Eds.). (2006). Reading Philosophy of Language: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary. Blackwell Publishing
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• Alston, W. P. (1963). Meaning and use. The Philosophical Quarterly, 13 (51), 107-124
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• Austin, J. L. (1962). How to Do Things with Words. Oxford University Press. (Lecture XII: pp. 147-163)
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• Austin, J. L. (1961). Performative utterances. In J. O. Urmson & G. J. Warnock (Eds.), Philosophical Papers (3rd edition (1979), pp. 233-252). Oxford University Press
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• Bach, K. (1994). Conversational impliciture. Mind and Language, 9 (2), 124-162
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• Blackburn, S. (2005). Problems in the philosophy of language. In T. Honderich (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2nd edition, pp. 490-493). Oxford University Press
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• Davidson, D. (1967). Truth and meaning. Synthese, 17 (3), 304-323
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• Donnellan, K. (1966). Reference and definite description. Philosophical Reviews, 75 (3), 281-304
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• Dummett, M. (1975). What is a theory of meaning? (1). In S. Guttenplan (Ed.), Mind and Language (pp. 97-138). Oxford University Press
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• Evans, G. (1973). The causal theory of names. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society: Supplementary Volumes, 47, 187-208
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• Frege, G. (1918). The thought: A Logical Inquiry. English translation published in Mind, 65 (259), (1956), 289-311
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• Frege, G. (1892). On sense and reference. English translation in P. Geach & M. Black (Eds.), Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege (2nd edition, (1960) pp. 56-78). Grice (1975). Logic and conversation. In P. Cole & J. L. Morgan (Eds.), Syntax and Semantics (Vol. 3, pp. 41-58). New York Academic Press
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• Grice, H. P. (1957). Meaning. Philosophical Review, 66 (3), 377-388
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• Grice, H. P. & Strawson, P. F. (1956). In defense of a dogma. Philosophical Review, 65 (2), 141-158. Harris & McKinney (2021). Speech act theory: Social and political applications. In J. Khoo & R. K. Sterken (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (pp. 70-90). Routledge
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• Kripke, S. (1977). Speaker’s reference and semantic reference. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, II, pp. 255-276
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• Kripke, S. (1972). Naming and Necessity. Reprinted as Kripke, S. (Revised edition, 1980). Naming and Necessity. Blackwell Publishing. (Lecture II: pp. 71-105)
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• Lycan, W. G. (2019b). Philosophy of language. In R. Audi (Ed), The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (3rd edition, pp. 790-793). Cambridge University Press
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• Martinich, A. P. & Sosa, D. (Eds.). (2013). The Philosophy of Language. 6th edition. Oxford University Press. McGinn, C. (2015). Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained. The MIT Press. Nuccetelli, S & Seay, G. (Eds.). (2008). Philosophy of Language: Central Topics. Rowman & Littlefield
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• Putnam, H. (1973). Meaning and reference. Journal of Philosophy, 70 (19), 699-711
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• Quine, W. V. O. (1961). From a Logical Point of View: 9 Philosophico-Logical Essays. 2nd edition. Harper & Row Publishers
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• Quine, W. V. O. (1951). Two dogmas of empiricism. Philosophical Review, 60 (1), 20-43
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• Russell, B. (1905). On denoting. Mind, 14 (56), 479-493
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• Searle, J. (1969). The structure of illocutionary acts. In Searle, J. (1969). Speech Acts. Cambridge University Press. (pp. 54-71)
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• Searle, J. (1968). Austin on locutionary and illocutionary acts. Philosophical Review, 77 (4), 405-424
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• Searle, J. (1958). Proper names. Mind, 67 (266), 166-173
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• Strawson, P. F. (1950). On referring. Mind, 59 (235), 320-344
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• Tarski, A. (1944). The semantic conception of truth and the foundation of semantics. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 4 (3), 341-375
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