Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 2 Volume Set

Bob Hale is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is a member of the editorial board of Philosophia Mathematica, and is author of Abstract Objects (Blackwell, 1987) and Necessary Beings (2013; revised 2nd edn, 2015); co-editor of Reading Putnam (with Peter Clark; Blackwell, 1994), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Crispin Wright; Blackwell, 1997), and Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology (with Aviv Hoffmann, 2010); and co-author of The Reason's Proper Study (with Crispin Wright, 2001). Crispin Wright is Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling. His books include Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics (1980), Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects (1983), Truth and Objectivity (1992), Realism, Meaning and Truth (2nd edn, 1993), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Bob Hale, Blackwell, 1997), The Reason's Proper Study (with Bob Hale, 2001), Rails to Infinity (2001), and Saving the Differences (2003). Alexander Miller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His publications include Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2013), Philosophy of Language Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2007), and Rule-Following and Meaning (with Crispin Wright, 2002).

• Volume IList of Contributors viiiPreface to the Second Edition xvPreface to the First Edition xviPart I Meaning and Theories of Meaning 11 Metaphysics, Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Language 3Michael Morris2 Meaning and Truth‐Conditions: From Frege’s Grand Design to Davidson’s 27David Wiggins3 Intention and Convention in the Theory of Meaning 49Stephen Schiffer4 Meaning, Use, Verification 73John SkorupskiPostscript: Bernhard Weiss5 Semantics and Pragmatics 107Guy Longworth6 Pragmatics 127Charles TravisPostscript: Charles Travis7 On the Linguistic Status of Context Sensitivity 151John Collins8 A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics 174Barry LoewerPostscript: Peter Schulte9 Inferentialism 197Julien Murzi and Florian Steinberger10 Against Harmony 225Ian Rumfitt11 Meaning and Privacy 250Edward CraigPostscript: Guy Longworth12 Tacit Knowledge 272Alexander Miller13 Radical Interpretation 299Jane HealPostscript: Alexander Miller14 Propositional Attitudes 324Mark Richard15 Holism 357Christopher Peacocke16 Metaphor 375Richard MoranPostscript: Andrew McGonigal17 Conditionals 401Anthony S. Gillies18 Generics 437Bernhard Nickel19 Deflationist Theories of Truth, Meaning, and Content 463Stephen SchifferVolume IIPart I L anguage, Truth, and Reality 49120 Realism and its Oppositions 493Bob HalePostscript: Bernhard Weiss21 Theories of Truth 532Ralph C. S. WalkerPostscript: Michael P. Lynch22 Truthmaker Semantics 556Kit Fine23 Analyticity 578Paul Artin BoghossianPostscript: Paul Artin Boghossian24 Rule‐Following, Objectivity, and Meaning 619Bob HalePostscript: Daniel Wee25 The Normativity of Meaning 649Anandi Hattiangadi26 Indeterminacy of Translation 670Crispin WrightPostscript: Alexander Miller27 Putnam’s Model‐Theoretic Argument against Metaphysical Realism 703Bob Hale and Crispin WrightPostscript: Jussi Haukioja28 Sorites 734Mark Sainsbury and Timothy WilliamsonPostscript: Aidan McGlynn29 Time and Tense 765Berit Brogaard30 Relativism 787Patrick Shirreff and Brian WeathersonPart II Reference, Identity, and Necessity 80531 Modality 807Bob HalePostscript: Bob Hale32 Relativism about Epistemic Modals 843Andy Egan33 Internalism and Externalism 865Jussi Haukioja34 Essentialism 881Graeme ForbesPostscript: Penelope Mackie35 Reference and Necessity 902Robert Stalnaker36 Names and Rigid Designation 920Jason Stanley37 Two‐Dimensional Semantics 948Christian Nimtz38 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Indexicals 970John Perry39 Objects and Criteria of Identity 990E. J. LowePostscript: Harold Noonan40 Relative Identity 1013Harold Noonan41 De Jure Codesignation 1033James PryorGlossary 1080Index 1117