Philosophy of Logic and Language (108) Comprehensive List Robert L. Frazier 24/10/2009 Descriptions [Russell, 1905]. [Russell, 1919]. [Strawson, 1950a]. [Donnellan, 1966]. [Evans, 1979]. [McCulloch, 1989], chs 2, 3 & 7. [Martin, 1987], ch13. The only thing that distinguishes the so-and-so from a so-and-so is the implication of uniqueness. (Russell) Is it? Names [Martin, 1987], chs 16 & 17. [Devitt and Sterelny, 1987], chs 3 & 4. [Kripke, 1972], lectures I & II (to p. 97). [Evans, 1973]. [McDowell, 1977]. [Searle, 1958]. What part, if any, does causation have to play in the analysis of the reference of proper names? Can a proper name have meaning if there is no object to which it refers? Demonstratives [Frege, 1956]. [Kaplan, 1990a]. [Kaplan, 1990b]. [Perry, 1977]. [Peacocke, 1981]. [Evans, 1981]. [Evans, 1982], ch. 6, pp. 143 205. [Searle, 1983], ch. 8, sect. III. [McCulloch, 1989], chs 5 & 6. [Wettstein, 1984]. What do you think is the most reasonable account of how demonstratives reference works? 1
24/10/2009 2 Meaning [Grice, 1957]. [Davidson, 1967]. [Strawson, 1971]. [Putnam, 1982]. [Blackburn, 1984], chs. 2 & 3. [Fodor and Lepore, 1992]. [Wiggins, 1997]. [Avramides, 1997]. [Travis, 1997]. What are the main alternative accounts of meaning? Which, if any, do you think is most reasonable? Truth [Dancy and Sosa, 1992], entry on truth. [Aune, 1986], pp. 135 159. [Austin, 1950]. [Dummett, 1959]. [Strawson, 1950b]. [Blackburn, 1984], chs 7 & 8.1 8.2. [Davidson, 1967] [Tarski, 1944]. [Jubien, 1997], ch. 5. [Loux, 1998], ch. 4. Is the redundancy theory an improvement on the correspondence theory? The Private Language Argument [Wittgenstein, 1953], 243 315. [Blackburn, 1984], ch 3, 1-4. [Kripke, 1982], chs 1-3. [McDowell, 1984]. [Craig, 1997]. What is Wittgenstein s sceptical paradox about meaning? paradox? What is Wittgenstein s solution to the Necessary Truth [Ayer, 1946], ch. IV. [Quine, 1953]. [Grice and Strawson, 1956]. [Swinburne, 1975]. [Kripke, 1972], pp. 34 39, 48 50, 53 58, 99 105, & 108 109. [Kitcher, 1980]. [Evans, 1979]. [Craig, 1975]. [Audi, 1998], ch. 4.
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