Lectures
Course Outline
1
Introduction
2
Mill on Reference
Mill ‘Of Names’ (from A System of Logic)
Meinong ‘The Theory of Objects’
3
Frege on Sense
Frege ‘Sense and Reference’
4
Descriptivism
Russell ‘On Denoting’
Donellan ‘Reference and Definite Descriptions’
5
Names and Descriptions
Searle, ‘Proper Names’
Kripke (extract from) ‘Naming and Necessity’
6
Causal Theory
Putnam (extract from) ‘The Meaning of ‘Meaning’’
7
Meanings as Entities
Frege ‘The Thought’
8
Skepticism
1: Quine
2: Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein (extract from) Philosophical Investigations
Quine (extract from) Word and Object
9
Naturalising content
10
Truth Conditional Semantics
Davidson ‘Truth and Meaning’
Fodor, JD. (extract from) Semantics: Theories of Meaning in Generative Grammar
11
Pragmatics
Stalnaker ‘Pragmatics’
Barwise/Perry ‘Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations’
12
Intention and Implicature
Grice ‘Logic and Conversation’
13
Speech Acts
Austin (extract from) How to Do Things with Words,
Searle ‘How Performatives Work’.
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