Overlooking Conventions

Michael Devitt is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of CUNY. He is the author of the following books: Designation (1981); Realism and Truth (1984/1991/1997); Language and Reality (with Kim Sterelny, 1987/1999); Coming to Our Senses (1996); Ignorance of Language (2006); Putting Metaphysics First (2010); Biological Essentialism (forthcoming). He has co-edited (with Richard Hanley) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language (2006)

• Preface.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Reliance on Intuitions.- Chapter 3. The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction.- Chapter 4: Speaker Meanings and Intentions.- Chapter 5. Linguistic Conventions and Language.- Chapter 6. Bach and Neale on “What is Said”.- Chapter 7. Confusion of the Metaphysics Of Meaning With the Epistemology of Interpretation.- Chapter 8. Modified Occam’s Razor and The Denial of Linguistic Meanings.- Chapter 9. Referential Descriptions: A Case Study.- Chapter 10. Saturation and Pragmatism’s Challenge.- Chapter 11. Polysemy and Pragmatism’s Challenge.- Chapter 12. Sub-Sententials: Pragmatics or Semantics?.- Index.