On Sense and Direct Reference

Overview

On Sense and Direct Reference: Readings in the Philosophy of Language focuses on the debate between neo-Fregeans and neo-Russellians in philosophy of language. With a foreword by Nathan Salmon, the volume collects more than 40 of the most important papers in philosophy of language in the last 40 years; including David Kaplan's "Demonstratives" and "Afterthoughts", and a paper written by Scott Soames especially for the volume. It is suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses.

Table of contents

Preface
Foreword

Introduction
1. Ben Caplan, On Sense and Direct Reference
The Background
2. Gottlob Frege, On Sense and Reference
3. John Stewart Mill, Of Names
4. Bertrand Russell, On Denoting
5. Gittlob Frege/BertrandRussell, Selection from the Frege-Russell Correspondence
6. Alonzo Church, Introduction to Mathematical Logic (excerpt)
The Attack on Frege
7. Saul Kripke, Identity and Necessity
8. Keith S. Donnellan, Proper Names and Identifying Descriptions
9. Michael Devitt, Designation (excerpt)
10. Hilary Putnam, The Meaning of 'Meaning’
11. Mark Richard, Taking the Fregean Seriously
12. Nathan Salmon, A Millian Heir Rejects the Wages of Sinn
The Development of the New Theory
13. David Kaplan, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
14. Tom McKay, On Proper Names in Belief Ascriptions
15. Nathan Salmon, Frege's Puzzle
16. Scott Soames, Substitutivity
17. Mark Crimmons and John Perry, The Prince and the Phone Booth: Reporting Puzzling Beliefs
18. Mark Richard, Attitudes in Context
The Response to the New Theory of Reference
19. Stephen Schiffer, Belief Ascription
20. Graham Oppy, Why Semantic Innocence?
21. Michael Dummett, Note on a Attempted Refutation of Frege
22. Michael Devitt, Against Direct Reference
23. Jay David Atlas, Why Water Isn’t H2O, Much Less Isn’t Necessarily H2O
24. Brian Loar, The Semantics of Singular Terms
25. Michael Devitt, Brian Loar on Singular Terms
26. Brian Loar, Names and Descriptions: A Reply to Michael Devitt
27. Gareth Evans, The Causal Theory of Names
28. Alvin Plantinga, On Existentialism
29. Matthew Davidson, Transworld Identity, Singular Propositions, and Picture-Thinking
The Rebirth of Fregeanism
30. Graeme Forbes, The Indispensibility of Sinn
31. Alvin Plantinga, The Boethian Compromise
32. David Chalmers, On Sense and Intension
Replies to the Rebirth of Fregeanism
33. Scott Soames, Rigid Designation and Its Lessons for the Semantic Contents of Proper Names
34. Scott Soames, Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism
Indexicals
35. David Kaplan, Demonstratives: An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals
36. David Kaplan, Afterthoughts
37. John Perry, Frege on Demonstratives
38. Nathan Salmon, Demonstrating and Necessity
Empty Terms
39. Nathan Salmon, Nonexistence
40. David Braun, Empty Names
The Contingent a Priori and Necessary A Posteriori
41. Gareth Evans, Reference and Contingency
42. Nathan Salmon, How to Measure the Standard Metre
43. Scott Soames, The Necessary Aposteriori
Puzzles
44. Saul Kripke, A Puzzle About Belief
45. Nathan Salmon, Illogical Belief
46. Jennifer Saul, Substitution and Simple Sentences
47. Graeme Forbes, How Much Substitutivity?
48. Jennifer Saul, Reply to Forbes