Description
Book SynopsisSome of the most distinguished active contributors to the field join together for a collection of their most recent work.
- Brings together important new papers by many of the most distinguished philosophers of language
- Takes up some of the central issues in the field in recent years
- Includes some of the best cutting-edge work in philosophy of language
Table of Contents1. Things and Their Aspects: NICHOLAS ASHER.
2. Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is: DAVID BRAUN.
3. Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs and Expressions: HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNIE LEPORE.
4. Descriptions with Adverbs of Quantification: DELIA GRAFF FARA.
5. MacFarlane on Relative Truth: RICHARD G. HECK, JR.
6. Sententialism: The Thesis that Complement Clauses Refer to Themselves: JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM.
7. Soames on Descriptive Reference-Fixing: ROBIN JESHION.
8. Singular Terms, Reference and Methodology in Semantics: JEFFREY C. KING.
9. From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction: PETER LUDLOW.
10. The Meaning of “Water”: An Unsolved Problem: WILLIAM G. LYCAN.
11. “Knowledge of Language and Linguistic Competence”: ROBERT J. MATTHEWS.
12. Interpreting Concatenation and Concatenates: PAUL M. PIETROSKI.
13. Understanding as Immersion: R. M. SAINSBURY.
14. Terms in Bondage: NATHAN SALMON.
15. Two Perspectives on Knowledge of Language: STEPHEN SCHIFFER.
16. The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori: SCOTT SOAMES.
17. Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non-Hyperintensional Contexts: TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON.
Symposium.
1. Self-Reflexive Thoughts: GILBERT HARMAN.
2. on Self Referential Thoughts: CHRISTOPHER S. HILL Harman
