Arguing about language / edited by Darragh Byrne and Max Kölbel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Meaning / H. Paul Grice -- Meaning and truth / P.F. Strawson -- Language and communication / Michael Dummett -- On sense and reference / Gottlob Frege -- Frege's puzzle / Nathan Solomon -- Descriptions / Bertrand Russell -- On referring / P.F. Strawson -- Mr. Strawson on referring / Bertrand Russell -- Naming and necessity / Saul Kripke -- Reference and descriptions revisited / Frank Jackson --- Two dogmas of empiricism / W.V. Quine -- In defense of a dogma / H. Paul Grice and P.F. Strawson -- Truth and meaning / Donald Davidson -- Meaning and truth theory / John Foster -- Languages and language / David K. Lewis -- A note on 'languages and language' / John Hawthorne -- A Chomskian alternative to convention-based semantics / Stephen Laurence -- Knowledge of language as a focus of inquiry / Noam Chomsky -- Semantic theory and tacit knowledge / Gareth Evans -- Theories of meaning and speakers' knowledge / Crispin Wright -- Why meaning (probably) isn't conceptual role / Jerry A. Fodor and Ernest Lepore -- Is compositionality compatible with holism? / Peter Pagin -- Logic and conversation / H. Paul Grice -- Linguistic meaning, communicated meaning and cognitive pragmatics / Robyn Carston -- Against compositionality : the case of adjectives / Ran Lahav -- Adjectives in context / Zoltán Gendler Szabó -- Kripke's account of the argument against private language / Crispin Wright -- Semantic normativity / Åsa Wikforss -- What metaphors mean / Donald Davidson -- How metaphors work : a reply to Donald Davidson / Max Black -- Vagueness, logic and ontology / Achille C. Varzi -- Vagueness and ignorance / Timothy Williamson -- Shifting sands : an interest-relative theory of vagueness / Delia Graff Fara -- Truth in fiction / David K. Lewis -- Talk about fiction / Stefano Predelli -- Speaking of fictional characters / Amie L. Thomasson.