Mark Sainsbury is Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy at King's College London. He is author of Russell (Routledge, 1985), Paradoxes (1995) and Logical Forms (2000). He was also former editor of Mind.

• Introduction: Departing from Frege, I Understanding and theories of meaning (1979) II Evans on reference (1985) III Concepts without boundaries (1990) IV Russell on names and communication (1993) VI Easy possibilities (1997) VII Fregean sense (1997)VIII Indexicals and reported speech (1998) IX Names, fictional names, and "really" (1999) X Knowing meanings and knowing entities (2001) XI Two ways to smoke a cigarette (2001), XII Sense without reference (2001

'The editors for the International Library of Philosophy should be congratulated for having persuaded Sainsbury to reprint the essays in this form.' - Max Kolbel, Philosophical Books