Oxford Bibliography for Philosophy of Language
by Michael P. Wolf
GENERAL OVERVIEWS
Devitt, Michael, and Richard Hanley, eds. The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006.
Hale, Bob, and Crispin Wright, eds. A Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.
Lepore, Ernest, and Barry C. Smith, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Wolf, Michael P. “Philosophy of Language URL: (Language, Philosophy of | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).” In The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edited by James Fieser and Bradley Dowden. 2006.
TEXTBOOKS AND ANTHOLOGIES
Davidson, Matthew, ed. On Sense and Direct Reference: Readings in the Philosophy of Language. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Ludlow, Peter. Readings in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997
Lycan, William G. Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction. 2d ed. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Lynch, Michael P., ed. The Nature of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
Martinich, A. P., ed. The Philosophy of Language. 5th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Miller, Alexander. Philosophy of Language. 2d ed. Fundamentals of Philosophy. London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.
Morris, Michael. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
MAJOR FIGURES
Carnap, Rudolf. Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. Alcester, UK: Read Books, 2008.
Frege, Gottlob. “On Sinn and Bedeutung.” In The Frege Reader. Edited by Michael Beaney, 151–171. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1997
Quine, Willard Van Orman. Word and Object. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960.
Russell, Bertrand. “On Denoting.” Mind 14 (1905): 479–493.
Sellars, Wilfrid. “Inference and Meaning.” Mind 62 (1953): 313–338.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Translated by C. K. Ogden. New York: Dover 1998.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. 4th ed. Translated by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
THEORIES OF MEANING
Alston, William P. Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.
Brandom, Robert B. Making It Explicit. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994.
Churchland, Paul. “Neurosemantics: On the Mapping of Minds and the Portrayal of Words.” In Neurophilosophy at Work. By Paul Churchland, 126–160. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Davidson, Donald. “Truth and Meaning.” In Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation. 2d ed. By Donald Davidson, 17–42. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Dummett, Michael. “What Is a Theory of Meaning? (II).” In Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics. 2d ed. Edited by Gareth Evans and John McDowell, 67–137. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Fodor, Jerry. “Having Concepts: A Brief Refutation of the Twentieth Century.” Mind and Language 19.1 (2004): 29–47.
Grice, H. P. “Meaning.” Philosophical Review 66 (1957): 377–388.
Habermas, Jürgen. A Theory of Communicative Action. Vol. 1, Reason and the Rationalization of Society. Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Boston: Beacon, 1985.
Horwich, Paul. Reflections on Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE
Burge, Tyler. “Wherein Is Language Social?” In Foundations of Mind. Vol. 2. By Tyler Burge, 275–290. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Chomsky, Noam. Rules and Representations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
Davidson, Donald. “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs.” In Philosophical Grounds of Rationality. Edited by Richard E. Grandy and Richard Warner, 157–174. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.
Lewis, David. “Languages and Language.” In Philosophical Papers, Vol. 1. By David Lewis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Millikan, Ruth Garrett. “Biosemantics.” Journal of Philosophy 86 (1989): 281–297.
Wiggins, David. “Languages as Social Objects.” Philosophy 72 (1997): 499–524.
RULE-FOLLOWING AND MEANING SKEPTICISM
Hattiangadi, Anandi. Oughts and Thoughts: Scepticism and the Normativity of Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Kripke, Saul A. Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.
Kusch, Martin. A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.
McDowell, John. “Wittgenstein on Following a Rule.” Synthese 58 (1984): 325–364.
Millikan, Ruth Garrett. “Truth Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox.” Philosophical Review 99.3 (1990): 323–353.
Wright, Crispin. Truth and Objectivity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.
TRUTH
Dummett, Michael. “Realism.” In Truth and Other Enigmas. By Michael Dummett, 145–165. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.
Grover, Dorothy L., Joseph L. Camp Jr., and Nuel D. Belnap Jr. “A Prosentential Theory of Truth.” Philosophical Studies 27 (1975): 73–124.
Horwich, Paul. Truth. 2d ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Tarski, Alfred. “The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4 (1944): 341–375.
Tarski, Alfred. “The Concept of Truth in the Languages of the Deductive Sciences.” In Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers from 1923 to 1938. 2d ed. Edited by John Corcoran. Translated by J. H. Woodger, 152–278. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1983
Wright, Crispin. “Minimalism and Deflationism.” In Saving the Differences: Essays on Themes from Truth and Objectivity. By Crispin Wright, 332–350. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
ANALYTICITY
Ayer, Alfred Jules. Language, Truth, and Logic. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Boghossian, Paul. “Analyticity Reconsidered.” In Content and Justification: Philosophical Papers. By Paul Boghossian, 195–224. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Fodor, Jerry, and Ernest Lepore. Holism: A Shopper’s Guide. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1992.
Quine, Willard van Orman. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” In From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays. 2d rev. ed. By Willard van Orman Quine, 20–46. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Williamson, Timothy. “Conceptual Truth.” Aristotelian Society supp. 80 (2006): 1–41.
DIRECT REFERENCE AND RIGID DESIGNATION
Berger, Alan. Terms and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002
Chalmers, David J. “On Sense and Intension.” Philosophical Perspectives 16 (2002): 135–182.
Devitt, Michael. “Against Direct Reference.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 14 (1989): 206–240.
Kripke, Saul A. Naming and Necessity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980.
Putnam, Hilary. “The Meaning of Meaning.” In Mind, Language, and Reality: Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2. By Hilary Putnam, 215–271. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Wolf, Michael P. “Rigid Designation and Anaphoric Theories of Reference.” Philosophical Studies 130 (2006): 351–375.
INDEXICALS AND DEMONSTRATIVES
Borg, Emma. “Complex Demonstratives.” Philosophical Studies 97 (2000): 225–244.
Brandom, Robert B. Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Evans, Gareth. The Varieties of Reference. Edited by John McDowell. Oxford: Clarendon, 1982.
Kaplan, David. “Dthat.” In Syntax and Semantics. Vol. 2, Pragmatics. Edited by Peter Cole, 221–253. New York: Academic Press, 1978.
Kaplan, David. “Demonstratives.” In Themes from Kaplan. Edited by Joseph Almog, John Perry, and Howard Wettstein, 481–563. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
May, Robert. “Frege on Indexicals.” Philosophical Review 115 (2006): 487–516.
McDowell, John. “De Re Senses.” Philosophical Quarterly 34 (1984): 283–294.
Perry, John. “The Problem of the Essential Indexical.” Noûs 13 (1979): 3–21.
PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES
Brandom, Robert B. Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Burge, Tyler. “Belief De Re.” Journal of Philosophy 74 (1977): 338–362.
Davidson, Donald. “On Saying That.” Synthese 19 (1968): 130–146.
Kripke, Saul. “A Puzzle about Belief.” In Meaning and Use: Papers Presented at the Second Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter, April 1976. Edited by Avishai Margalit, 239–283. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Reidel, 1979.
Richard, Mark. “Direct Reference and Ascriptions of Belief.” Journal of Philosophical Logic 12 (1983): 425–452.
Schiffer, Stephen. “Descriptions, Indexicals, and Belief Reports: Some Dilemmas (but Not the Ones You Expect).” In Direct Reference, Indexicality, and Propositional Attitudes. Edited by Wolfgang Künne, Albert Newen, and Martin Anduschus, 247-276. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1997
SPEECH ACTS
Austin, J. L. How to Do Things with Words. 2d ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975.
Bach, Kent, and Robert M. Harnish. Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1979.
Davis, Wayne A. Implicature: Intention, Convention, and Principle in the Failure of Gricean Theory. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Grice, Paul. “Logic and Conversation.” In Studies in the Way of Words. By Paul Grice, 22–40, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Kukla, Rebecca, and Mark Lance. Yo and Lo! The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Saul, Jennifer M. “Speaker Meaning, What Is Said, and What Is Implicated.” Noûs 36 (2002): 228–248.
‣Searle, John R. Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
METAPHOR
Camp, Elizabeth. “Contextualism, Metaphor, and What Is Said.” Mind and Language 21.3 (2006): 280–309.
Davidson, Donald. “What Metaphors Mean.” In On Metaphor. Edited by Sheldon Sacks, 29–46. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. “Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language.” Journal of Philosophy 77 (1980): 453–486.
Stern, Josef. “Metaphor, Literal, Literalism.” Mind and Language 21.3 (2006): 243–279.
MINIMALISM AND CONTEXTUALISM IN SEMANTICS
Atlas, Jay David. “Meanings, Propositions, Context, and Semantical Underdeterminacy.” In Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics. Edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter, 217–239. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Borg, Emma. “Minimalism versus Contextualism in Semantics.” In Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics. Edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter, 339–360. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Cappelen, Herman, and Ernie Lepore. Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
MacFarlane, John. “Semantic Minimalism and Nonindexical Contextualism.” In Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics. Edited by Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter, 240–250. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Stanley, Jason. “On the Linguistic Basis for Contextualism.” Philosophical Studies 119 (2004): 119–146.
Travis, Charles. “Meaning’s Role in Truth.” Mind 105 (1996): 451–466.
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