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09/29/21 Philosophy of Language (ELA020X243A/S) | University of Roehampton

Philosophy of Language (ELA020X243A/S) View Online

(Academic year 2021-2022)

106 items

Key Texts (5 items)

Philosophy of language: a contemporary introduction - William G. Lycan, 2008 Book | Essential Reading

What is this thing called philosophy of language? - Gary Kemp, 2013 Book | Essential Reading

An introduction to the philosophy of language - Michael Morris, 2007 Book | Essential Reading

John Searle on the Philosophy of Language: Section 1 - 14/3/2008 Audio-visual document | Essential Reading

Week 1 Reference as an approach to meaning (6 items)

Philosophy of language: a contemporary introduction - William G. Lycan, 2008 Book | Essential Reading | Chapters 1 and 3

Reading philosophy of language: selected texts with interactive commentary - Jennifer Hornsby, Guy Longworth, 2006 Book | Essential Reading | Read John Stuart Mill "Of names", pp.18-25

The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume VII - A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive Part I - Online Library of Liberty Book | Further Reading

What is this thing called philosophy of language? - Gary Kemp, 2013 Book | Essential Reading | Note for students Read pp. 1-10

Proper Names - John R. Searle, 1958 Article | Essential Reading

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Philosophy of Logical Atomism - Bertrand Russell, 2009 Book | Further Reading | Read p. 27-30

Week 2 Definite descriptions (6 items)

Philosophy of language: a contemporary introduction - William G. Lycan, 2008 Book | Essential Reading | Chapter 2

An introduction to the philosophy of language - Michael Morris, 2007 Book | Essential Reading | Read Chapter 3

What is this thing called philosophy of language? - Gary Kemp, 2013 Book | Essential Reading | Read pp. 49-57

On Referring - P. F. Strawson, 1950 Article | Further Reading

Reference and Definite Descriptions - Keith S. Donnellan, 1966 Article | Further Reading

On Denoting - Bertrand Russell, 1905 Article | Further Reading

Week 3 Frege on sense and reference (3 items)

The Frege reader - Gottlob Frege, Michael Beaney, 1997 Book | Essential Reading | Read ‘On Sinn and Bedeutung’ in Beaney pp. 151-170

An introduction to the philosophy of language - Michael Morris, 2007 Book | Essential Reading | Read chapter 2

Comparing Frege and Russell - Kent Bach Article | Further Reading

Week 4 Problems with the referential view of meaning (5 items)

An introduction to the philosophy of language - Michael Morris, 2007 Book | Essential Reading | Chapter 5

Philosophy of language: a contemporary introduction - William G. Lycan, 2008 Book | Essential Reading | Chapter 4

What is this thing called philosophy of language? - Gary Kemp, 2013 Book | Essential Reading | Chapter 4

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of language - Ernest LePore, Barry C. Smith, 2008

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Book | Essential Reading | Read chapter 36 Stainton, R 'Meaning and reference: some Chomskian themes'

The copredication argument - John Collins, 2017-10-03 Article | Further Reading

Week 5 Grice: Meaning and intention (6 items)

Philosophy of language: a contemporary introduction - William G. Lycan, 2008 Book | Essential Reading | Read pages 86-97

An introduction to the philosophy of language - Michael Morris, 2007 Book | Essential Reading | Read chapter 13

Studies in the way of words - H. P. Grice, 1989 Book | Further Reading | Chapter 2 for Grice's Theory of Conversation and chapter 14 for his theory of meaning-nn

Paul Grice, philosopher and linguist - Siobhan Chapman, 2008 Book | Further Reading | Chapter 4

Paul Grice, philosopher and linguist - Siobhan Chapman, 2005 Book | Essential Reading | Read Chapter 4

Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Language - Stephen Neale, 1992 Article | Further Reading

Week 6 Intentional approaches to meaning: empirical application and issues (3 items)

The handbook of pragmatics - Lawrence Horn, Gregory Ward, 2007 Book | Essential Reading | Read chapter 27 for an introduction to Relevance Theory

Why Pragmatics and Theory of Mind Do Not (Completely) Overlap - Francesca M. Bosco, Maurizio Tirassa, Ilaria Gabbatore, 2018-8-13 Article | Further Reading

Week 7 "Use" Theories of meaning (5 items)

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Philosophy of language: a contemporary introduction - William G. Lycan, 2008 Book | Essential Reading | pp.76-83

What is this thing called philosophy of language? - Gary Kemp, 2013 Book | Essential Reading | ch.10

Some Reflections on Language Games - Wilfrid Sellars, 1954 Article | Essential Reading | You only need to read paragraphs 1 to 36.

Robert Brandom - Jeremy Wanderer, 2008 Book | Further Reading | Read pp. 136 to 126 for Brandom's approach to the semantics of words and phrases

Philosophical investigations - Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1958 Book | Further Reading

Week 8 Assertion: the fundamental language-game (5 items)

Robert Brandom - Jeremy Wanderer, 2008 Book | Essential Reading | Read chapters 5 and 6

Philosophy of language: a contemporary introduction - William G. Lycan, 2008 Book | Essential Reading | Read pages 83-85

Asserting - Robert Brandom, 1983 Article | Further Reading

Assertion - Mark Jary, 2010 Book | Further Reading | Read pages 16- 23.

Assertion - Mark Jary, 2010 Book | Further Reading | Read pages 16- 23

Week 9 Lying and deception (6 items)

Lying and deception

Lying, misleading, and what is said: an exploration in philosophy of language and in ethics - Jennifer Mather Saul, 2015 Book | Essential Reading

The Definition of Lying and Deception - Mahon, James Edwin

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Article | Essential Reading

The Definition of Lying* - Thomas L. Carson, 2006-06 Article | Further Reading

Bald-faced lies! Lying without the intent to deceive. - Roy Sorensen Article | Further Reading

On bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt, 2005 Book

Week 10 Lying and deception: empirical studies (4 items)

The folk concept of lying - Alex Wiegmann, Jörg Meibauer, 2019-08 Article | Essential Reading

No need for an intention to deceive? Challenging the traditional definition of lying - Ronja Rutschmann, Alex Wiegmann, 2017-05-19 Article | Further Reading

Are false implicatures lies? An empirical investigation - Benjamin Weissman, Marina Terkourafi, 2019-04 Article | Further Reading

When children aren't more logical than adults: An empirical investigation of lying by falsely implicating - Mailin Antomo, Susanne Müller, Katharina Paul, Markus Paluch, Maik Thalmann, 2018-12 Article | Further Reading

Supplementary Readings (36 items)

On Referring and Not Referring - Kent Bach Article

The Frege reader - Gottlob Frege, Michael Beaney, 1997 Book | Especially: Frege, G. 'On Sinn and Bedeutung', pp. 151-170; and, Frege, G., 'Thought', pp. 325-345;

Asserting - Robert Brandom, 1983-11 Article

Articulating reasons: an introduction to inferentialism - Brandom, Robert, 2000 Book | Further Reading

Reference and Definite Descriptions - Keith S. Donnellan, 1966-07 Article

Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke, 2001 Book | Essential Reading | E-book version.

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Paul Grice, philosopher and linguist - Siobhan Chapman, ebrary, Inc, 2005 Book

Paul Grice, philosopher and linguist - Siobhan Chapman, 2008 Book

An essay concerning human understanding - John Locke, A. Seth Pringle-Pattison, 1924 Book | Essential Reading | There are more copies of this title at the shefmark 121

Reading philosophy of language: selected texts with interactive commentary - Jennifer Hornsby, Guy Longworth, 2006 Book | Essential Reading | Especially: Mill, J.S. (1843) ‘Of names’, pp.18-25.

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of language - Ernest LePore, Barry C. Smith, 2006 Book | Further Reading | Read: Bach, K (2006) ‘What Does it Take to Refer?’, pp. 516-555; and, Braun, D. 'Names and Natural Kind Terms', pp. 490-515; and, Sosa, D. 'Rigidity', pp. 476-489

Robert Brandom - Jeremy Wanderer, 2008 Book | Further Reading

The Thought: A Logical Inquiry - Gottlob Frege, 1956 Article | Further Reading

Meaning - H. P. Grice, 1957-07 Article | Further Reading

Syntax and semantics - John P. Kimball, Peter Cole, Jerry L. Morgan, 1975 Book | Further Reading | 'Grice, H. P., 'Logic and Conversation'

Pragmatics - Yan Huang, 2014 Book | Essential Reading

Assertion - Mark Jary, 2010 Book | Further Reading

The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume VII - A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive Part I - Online Library of Liberty Webpage | Further Reading | Read: Mill, J.S., 'Of Names'

Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Language - Stephen Neale, 1992 Article | Further Reading

On Denoting - Bertrand Russell, 1905 Article | Further Reading

The Philosophy of Logical Atomism - Bertrand Russell, 1919 Article | Further Reading

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Proper Names - John R. Searle, 1958 Article | Further Reading

Some Reflections on Language Games - Wilfrid Sellars, 1954 Article | Further Reading

Relevance: communication and cognition - Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson, 1995 Book | Further Reading

On Referring - P. F. Strawson, 1950 Article | Further Reading

An Essay concerning human understanding - John Locke, ebrary, Inc, 2001 Book | Essential Reading | Book 3, 'Of Words': Chapter 1, 'Of words or language in general'; Chapter 2, 'Of the signification of words'; Chapter 3, 'Of general terms'

An essay concerning human understanding - John Locke, P. H. Nidditch, 1979 Book | Essential Reading | Book 3, 'Of Words': Chapter 1, 'Of words or language in general'; Chapter 2, 'Of the signification of words'; Chapter 3, 'Of general terms'

An introduction to the philosophy of language - Michael Morris, 2007 Book | Essential Reading | Chapter 1

What is this thing called philosophy of language? - Gary Kemp, 2013 Book | Further Reading | Introduction

Philosophy of language: a contemporary introduction - William G. Lycan, 2008 Book | Essential Reading | Chapter 1

What is this thing called philosophy of language? - Gary Kemp, 2013 Book | Essential Reading | pp. 1-10

Of Names - J. S. Mill, 2006 Chapter | Essential Reading | Mill, J.S. (1843) ‘Of names’, pp.18-25. This extract has been digitised for your convenience. Print copies of the book are also available in the Library.

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of language - Ernest LePore, Barry C. Smith, 2006 Book | Further Reading | Read: Bach, K (2006) ‘What Does it Take to Refer?’, pp. 516-555

The Frege reader - Gottlob Frege, Michael Beaney, 1997 Book | Essential Reading | Frege, G. 'On Sinn and Bedeutung', pp. 151-170

Archive / Old reading list (9 items)

Robert Brandom: analytic pragmatist - Bernd Prien, David P. Schweikard, ebrary, Inc, 2008 Book | Further Reading

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Assertion: new philosophical essays - 2014 Book | Further Reading | Read Chapter 2 'What is assertion? by John MacFarlane. Also available here http://johnmacfarlane.net/assertion.pdf

Basic topics in the philosophy of language - Harnish, Robert M., c1994 Book | Further Reading

The philosophy of language - Martinich, Aloysius, c2008 Book | Further Reading

Philosophical papers - Austin, J. L., Urmson, J. O., Warnock, G. J., 1979 Book | Further Reading

Linguistic communication and speech acts - Bach, Kent, Harnish, Robert M., 1979 Book | Further Reading

The varieties of reference - Evans, Gareth, McDowell, John Henry, 1982 Book | Further Reading

Reading Brandom: on Making it explicit - Weiss, Bernhard, Wanderer, Jeremy, 2007 Book | Further Reading

Lying and deception: theory and practice - Thomas L. Carson, 2012 Book | Further Reading

Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language - Ernest Lepore, Barry C. Smith, 2006 Book | Further Reading

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of language - Ernest LePore, Barry C. Smith, 2008 Book | Further Reading

An introduction to the philosophy of language - Michael Morris, 2007 Book

Language Conventions Made Simple - Ruth Garrett Millikan, 1998-04 Article | Further Reading

The copredication argument - John Collins, 2017-10-03 Article | Further Reading

Studies in the way of words - H. P. Grice, 1989 Book | Further Reading

The handbook of pragmatics - Lawrence Horn, Gregory Ward, 2007 Book | Essential Reading

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