Philosophy 208: The Language Revolution Hamilton College Fall 2015 Russell Marcus

Course Bibliography

I. Readers

Byrne, Darragh and Max Kölbel. Arguing About Language. Routledge 2010. Davidson, Matthew. On Sense and Direct Reference: Readings in the of Language. McGraw Hill 2007. Devitt, Michael and Richard Hanley. The Blackwell Guide to the . Blackwell 2006. Harnish, Robert M. Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language. Prentice-Hall 1994. Hornsby, Jennifer and Guy Longworth. Reading Philosophy of Language: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary, Blackwell 2006. Lepore, Ernest and Barry C. Smith. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. Oxford 2006. Ludlow, Peter. Readings in the Philosophy of Language. MIT Press 1997. Martinich, A.P. The Philosophy of Language, 5th ed. Oxford University Press 2008. Nye, Andrea. Philosophy of Language: The Big Questions. Blackwell 2007. Stainton, Robert J. Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language. Broadview 2000.

II. Citations for the readings on the syllabus (in the order in which they appear on the syllabus)

Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass. Penguin 2000. Plato. “Sophist.” In Collected Dialogues, Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, eds. Princeton 1985. Hume, David. “Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.” Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993. Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1982. Locke, John. “Of Words.” In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book III, Chapters 1-3. Swift, Jonathan. “Getting Rid of Words.” In Bowie, G. Lee, Meredith Michaels and Robert C. Solomon, Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, 6th ed, Cengage 2007. Meinong, “The Theory of Objects,” §1-§6. In Roderick M. Chisholm, ed., Realism and the Background of Phenomenology, Ridgeview 1981, 76–117. Mill, John Stuart. “Of Names.” In Davidson, 34-41. Martinich, A.P. Introduction to The Philosophy of Language, 5th edition. Oxford: Oxgford University Press, 2008. Frege, from Preface to Begriffsschrift. In Beaney, Michael, The Frege Reader, Blackwell 1990. Frege, from Preface to Grundlagen. In Frege, Gottlob, The Foundations of Arithmetic, J.L. Austin, trans., 2nd ed., Northwestern 1980. Frege, Gottlob. “The Thought: A Logical Inquiry.” Mind 65: 289-311, 1956. Frege, “On Sense and Reference.” There are many different translations of this difficult-to-translate piece available. I recommend triangulation and patience. Russell, Bertrand. “Descriptions.” In Stainton, 65-74. Strawson, P.F. “On Referring.” Mind 59: 320-344, 1950. Donnellan, Keith. “Reference and Definite Descriptions.” The Philosophical Review 75.3: 281-304, 1966. Wittgenstein, “On ‘Moses,” is an excerpt from his Philosophical Investigations, 3rd ed. translated by G.E.M. (Elizabeth) Anscombe, Blackwell, 1958. Kripke, Saul. Naming and Necessity. Harvard University Press 1980. Includes the excerpt, “On Gold.” Putnam, Hilary. “Meaning and Reference.” The Journal of Philosophy 70: 699-711, 1973. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Routledge 1990. Philosophy 308: The Language Revolution, Prof. Marcus; Course Bibliography, page 2

Ayer, A.J. “The Principle of Verification.” In his Language, Truth and Logic, Dover 1952. Hempel, Carl. “Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes.” In Martinich, 50-61. Quine, W.V. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” In Byrne and Kölbel, 155-169. Quine, W.V. “Ontological Relativity.” In his Ontological Relativity and Other Essays, Cambridge 1969. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. “Meaning as Use.” In Bowie, G. Lee, Meredith Michaels and Robert C. Solomon, Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, 6th ed, Cengage 2007. (These are neat excerpts from Philosophical Investigations; see references above.) Wittgenstein, Ludwig. “On Private Language.” Also selections from Philosophical Investigations, Blackwell 1958. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics. MIT Press 1991. Kripke, Saul. “On Rules and Private Languages.” In Martinich 626-638. But also: the book from which the selections come has the same name, Harvard, 1982. Grice, H.P. “Meaning.” The Philosophical Review 66: 377-88, 1957. Schiffer, Stephen. Meaning. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. Austin, J.L. “Performative Utterances.” In Philosophical Papers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979), 233–52. Grice, H.P. “Logic and Conversation.” In Martinich, 171–81. Hom, Chris. “The Semantics of Racial Epithets.” Journal of Philosophy 105.8 (2008): 416–40. Anderson, Luvell, and Ernie Lepore. “Slurring Words.” Nous 47.1 (2013): 25–48.

III. Useful Introductory Texts

Lycan, William. Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction, 2nd ed. Routledge 2008. Morris, Michael. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge 2007. Odell, S. Jack. On the Philosophy of Language. Wadsworth 2006. Stainton, Robert J. Philosophical Perspectives on Language. Broadview 1996.

IV. Other Useful Readings

Abbott, Barbara. “Attributive, Referential, De Dicto, and De Re.” Ayer, A.J. “The Principle of Verification.” Pp 5-16 in his: Language Truth and Logic. Dover, 1952. Borges, Jorge Luis. “The Library of Babel.” In Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley (NewYork: Penguin, 1998). Byrne, Alex. “On Misinterpreting Kripke’s Wittgenstein.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56.2 (1996): 339-43. Camp, Elisabeth, “Slurring Perspectives,” 54.3 (2013): 330–49. Carnap, Rudolph. “Meaning Postulates.” In his Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. University of Chicago Press, 1988 (Midway Reprint). Carnap, Rudolph. “Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology.” In his Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Midway Reprint), 1988. Chomsky, Noam. “Language and Problems of Knowledge.” Teorema 16.2 (1997) 5–33. Chomsky, Noam. “Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use.” In Convergence, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen (New York: Praeger, 1986). Cook, John W. “Wittgenstein on Privacy.” The Philosophical Review 74.3 (1965): 281–314. Davidson, Donald. “On Saying That.” In Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), 93–108. Davidson, Donald. “True to the Facts.” Journal of Philosophy 66.21 (1969): 748–64. Philosophy 308: The Language Revolution, Prof. Marcus; Course Bibliography, page 3

Davidson, Donald. “Truth and Meaning.” In Ludlow, 89-107. Devitt, Michael. “Against Direct Reference.” In Davidson, 462–95. Devitt, Michael. “Intuitions in Linguistics.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 57 (2006): 481–513. Devitt, Michael. Linguistics is Not Psychology.” In Epistemology of Language, edited by Alex Barber (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003): 107-39. Donnellan, Keith. “Necessity and Criteria.” Journal of Philosophy 59.22 (1962): 647–58. Donnellan, Keith. “Proper Names and Identifying Descriptions.” In Davidson, 107-125. Donnellan, Keith. “Speaking of Nothing.” The Philosophical Review 83.1: 3-31, 1974. Dummett, Michael. “Truth.” In his: Truth and Other Enigmas, Harvard University Press, 1978. Ellis, Anthony. “Kenny and the Continuity of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy.” Mind 87, no. 346 ((1978): 270–75. Field, Hartry. “Quine and the Correspondence Theory.” The Philosophical Review 83.2 (1974): 200-28. Field, Hartry. “Tarski’s Theory of Truth.” The Journal of Philosophy 69.13: 347-375. Fodor, Jerry. Concepts; A Potboiler. Philosophical Issues 6: 1995. Fodor, Jerry, and Ernest Lepore. Holism: A Shopper’s Guide. Blackwell, 1992. Fodor, Jerry. “Rabbit Redux (or, ‘Reference Scrutinized’).” In The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994), 55–79. George, Alexander. “Katz Astray.” Mind and Language 11.3: 295-305, 1996. Grice, H.P. and Peter Strawson. “In Defence of a Dogma.” Philosophical Review 65: 141-58. Hohwy, Jakob. “Deflationism About Truth and Meaning.” Southern Journal of Philosophy 40 (2002): 217–42. Hom, Chris. “Pejoratives.” Philosophy Compass 5.2 (2010): 164–185. Hom, Chris, and Robert May. “Moral and Semantic Innocence.” Analytic Philosophy 54.3 (2013): 293- 313. Horwich, Paul. Meaning. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Horwich, Paul. “The Nature of Meaning.” In Devitt and Hanley, 43–57. Jackson, Frank. “Reference and Description Revisited.” In Byrne and Kölbel, 135–145. Jeshion, Robin. “Slurs and Stereotypes,” Analytic Philosophy 54.3 (2013): 314–29. Johnston, Mark. “The End of the Theory of Meaning.” Mind and Language 3.1: 28-42, 1988. Katz, Jerrold J. “The New Intensionalism.” Mind 101: 689-719. Katz, Jerrold J. “The Refutation of Indeterminacy.” The Journal of Philosophy 85:227-252, 1988. Katz, Jerrold J. “The Unfinished Chomskyan Revolution.” Mind and Language 11.3 (1996): 270–94. Kitis, Elizabeth. “Frege’s and Russell’s Solutions to the Problems of Non-Existent Subject Terms, Identity Statements, and Opaque Contexts.” Faculty of Philosophy Yearbook, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, 1 (1989): 141-58. Kripke, Saul. “Empty Reference.” Shearman Lecture, UCL, November 8, 1973. Kripke, Saul. “Frege’s Theory of Sense and Reference: Some Exegetical Notes.” Theoria 74: 181-218, 2008. Kripke, Saul. “Outline of a Theory of Truth.” Journal of Philosophy 72.19 (1975): 690-716. Kripke, Saul. Reference and Existence. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Kripke, Saul. “Speaker’s Reference and Semantic Reference.” In Ludlow, 383–414. Kripke, Saul. Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. Harvard University Press, 1982. Linnebo, Oystein. “Compositionality and Frege’s Context Principle.” Unpublished MS. Ludwig, Kirk, and Greg Ray. “Semantics for Opaque Contexts.” Nous 32, Supplement: Philosophical Perspectives, 12, Language, Mind, and Ontology (1998): 141–66. Martinich, A. P. “Reference and Descriptions.” In Martinich, 209–16. McDonald, Fritz. “Linguistics, Psychology, and the Ontology of Language.” Croatian Journal of Philosophy 9.3 (2009): 291-301. McGee, Van. “Truth.” In Devitt and Hanley, 392–410. Philosophy 308: The Language Revolution, Prof. Marcus; Course Bibliography, page 4

Millikan, Ruth. “Truth Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox.” The Philosophical Review 99.3 (1990): 323–53. Pinker, Stephen. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language. Harper Collins, 1995. Preyer, Gerhard and Georg Peter. Logical Form and Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Putnam, Hilary. “Is Semantics Possible?” In Mind, Language, and Reality, Collected Papers, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, 1975. Putnam, Hilary. “The Meaning of Meaning” In Mind, Language, and Reality, Collected Papers, Volume 2. Cambridge University Press, 1975. Quine, W. V. “On the Reaons for Indeterminacy of Translation.” In Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist, edited by Dagfinn Føllesdal and Douglas B. Quine, 209–14. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. Quine, W. V. “Translation and Meaning.” In Word and Object (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1960), 26–79. Roth, Paul. “Semantics without Foundations.” In The Philosophy of W. V. Quine, 2nd edition, edited by Edward Lewis Hahn and Paul Arthur Schilpp, 433–61 (with Quine’s reply). The Open Court Press, 1999. Richard, Mark. “Epithets and Attitudes.” In When Truth Gives Out (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 12–41. Russell, Bertrand. “On Denoting” Mind 14, no. 56 (1905): 479-93. Russell, Bertrand. “Mr. Strawson on Referring.” Mind 66, no. 263 (1957), 385-89. Quine, W.V. Word and Object. MIT Press, 1960. Schiffer, Stephen. Remnants of Meaning. MIT Press, 1987. Schiffer, Stephen. “Vagueness.” In Devitt and Hanley, 225–43. Searle, John. “Proper Names.” In Ludlow, 585–92. Searle, John. “The Structure of Illocutionary Acts.” In Martinich, 146–56. Searle, John. “A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts.” In Martinich, 157–70. Soames, Scott. “Truth, Meaning, and Understanding.” Philosophical Studies 65.1/2 (1992): 17–35. Soames, Scott. Understanding Truth. Oxford University Press, 1999. Stalnaker, Robert. “Reference and Necessity.” In Ways a World Might Be: Metaphysical and Anti- Metaphysical Essays (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003), 165–87. Stanley, Jason. Knowledge and Practical Interests. Oxford, 2007. Stanley, Jason. “Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century.” In The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy, edited by Dermot Moran. Abingdon: Routledge, 2008. Stanley, Jason, and Timothy Williamson. “Knowing How.” Journal of Philosophy 98.8 (2001): 411–44. Strawson, P. F. “Intention and Convention in Speech Acts.” The Philosophical Review 73.4 (1964): 439–60. Tarski, Alfred. “The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages.” In Logic, Semantics, and Metamathematics, 152–278. Indianapolis: Hackett, (1956) 1983. Tarski, Alfred. “The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 4: 341-375, 1944. White, Morton. “The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism.” In John Dewey: of Science and Freedom, edited by Sidney Hook, 316–330. New York: The Dial Press, 1950. Whorf, Benjamin. “Language, Thought, and Reality.” In Bowie, G. Lee, Meredith Michaels and Robert C. Solomon, Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy, 6th ed, Cengage 2007. Williamson, Timothy. “Reference, Inference, and the Semantics of Pejoratives.” In “The Philosophy of David Kaplan,” edited by Joseph Almog and Paolo Leonardi, 137–158. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Williamson, Timothy. Vagueness. Routledge, 1994. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. “From the Blue and Brown Books.” In Ludlow, 31-48.